This would open the SSH connection, sudo run the script and exit back to your local machine. The additional of one or two -t might be needed to make it set up a terminal connection else sudo might refuse to run.
Robin
First of all, thanks for your patience in answering
apologies for delayed reply, i was sleeping
Superb !..Thanks for great help, I have tested it from local machine to one of the remote ,it running fine ..
But on another remote its not working..just out of curiosity, asking the below question
...is that possible for an admin to restrict a remote user to login without su password authentication (even though I have followed your solution suggestion)...if there is method, then I think I am gonna tell him , if you restrict me I wont work
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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.
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Hello everybody,
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Hello
I have a partition with Aix 5.3 and I install sudo
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salmo allikm warhmat allah wabrakato
i want to do script with sudo like
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I am writing a BASH script to update a webserver and then restart Apache. It looks basically like this:
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Little confused here
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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)
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