Please forgive if Im totally wrong, a bit shaken after having an accident with my motorbike... but we were many bikes to fall as a lorry spilled fuel and the road...
I am not sure what is going on here, it seemed to me that after ssh, you are on a another connection with a new shell, no?
So su or sudo wont work as such IMHO
Sorry bad headhache, leaving...
Hi,
Hope you are ok ?
Yes , after ssh i will be on another remote box, where i need to switch to oracle user by using su ...
How ever i got some google information and previous reply from robin sudo su wont ask for password where just su shall ask ( I need to to give a try this a work around)
I've written a shell script to alter a particular preference file on OS X (10.3.9), which works fine (tested by running the script from the terminal sat in front of the box).
Problem is, I now have to run this script remotely across a number of machines via remote desktop, so where I've used the... (1 Reply)
Hi all..
I'm secering a RH 2.1 server, with gnome (not my choice...), as X manager.
Is ther anyway to get sudo ask for root password other then the actual user's password? Like when you launch the graphical IHM to create a new user, it asks for root's password? Is there a way to do the same... (5 Replies)
Hello everybody,
Say I forgot my root password (shit happens, no?) and I'd like to brutally try 100 possibilities to delete a file using sudo. How can I make a script that tries all the passwords?
The following doesn't work. Do you have a clue?
foo:~$ cat test
sudo rm dummy <<< 'password'
echo... (1 Reply)
Hello
I have a partition with Aix 5.3 and I install sudo
I put the commands that I want to use x user and I put the option that donkask for password.
But when I run with this user and I try to run that commands. ask me for a password.
I put this line for no ask for password with that... (2 Replies)
salmo allikm warhmat allah wabrakato
i want to do script with sudo like
sudo su and want to put password in the script not get from user because i to made it startup when booting and i don't know how put in script for sudo
thanks (5 Replies)
I am writing a BASH script to update a webserver and then restart Apache. It looks basically like this:
#!/bin/bash
rsync /path/on/local/machine/ foo.com:path/on/remote/machine/
ssh foo.com sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reloadrsync and ssh don't prompt for a password, because I have DSA encryption... (9 Replies)
Little confused here
When i go to run sudo nohup ./script.ksh &
I dont get asked for a password.
It starts a process ID, I can see it when i do a ps -ef | grep script.
But I dont get an output file from my script, so its not doing anything.
What gives?
does it have to do the "&" ?
... (4 Replies)
hi,
i have a requirement where i need to sudo to another user in the shell script.suppose consider user A and B, first user A calls a shell script and then i need to sudo to user B which executes another shell script inside the earlier one.
also this needs to be automated like while sudo'ing to... (3 Replies)
cleanwork /saswork removes sas orphanded processes in the saswork directory. Subdirectories under sasem are sas94, sas92 and sasworks .
I am getting the following error messages:
1.
'/usr/bin/sudo -S apt-get update <~/opt/SiM/pos/ps/db_auth.cfg... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
lusermod
lusermod(8) System Manager's Manual lusermod(8)NAME
lusermod - Modify an user
SYNOPSIS
lusermod [OPTION]... user
DESCRIPTION
Modifies the user with name user.
OPTIONS -c, --gecos=gecos
Set user's GECOS field to gecos. The GECOS field is traditionally used to store user's real name and other information.
-d, --directory=directory
Set user's home directory to directory.
-g, --gid=gid
Change user's primary group ID to gid. If group with ID gid does not exist, a warning is printed, but the operation is performed
anyway.
-i, --interactive
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.
-L, --lock
Lock user's account. This prevents logging in using user's password.
-l, --login=name
Rename user to name.
-m, --movedirectory
After changing user's home directory (using the -d option), move the old home directory to the new location.
-P, --plainpassword=password
Set user's password to password. Note that the password can be viewed while running lusermod using tools such as ps(1).
-p, --password=encrypted
Set user's password to the password represented by the hash encrypted. Note that the hash can be viewed while running lusermod
using tools such as ps(1).
-s, --shell=shell
Set user's login shell to shell.
-U, --unlock
Unlock user's account.
-u, --uid=uid
Change user's user ID to uid.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
libuser Feb 27 2008 lusermod(8)