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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to "su" along with passwd within a shell script? Post 7075 by edog on Tuesday 18th of September 2001 01:04:52 PM
Old 09-18-2001
I spent some time trying to automate su in a ksh script on AIX, it couldn't be done so to get aroud it I used the perl telnet module (telnet the same box).

If you can't telnet directly as the user you want you could use sudo to allow user y to run a script as user x.
sudo -H -u user_to_run_as script_to_run

If the above are not what you want you could also use expect to automate the su. This site will get you started, there is also an expect perl module but the telnet module has replaced it.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/expect/chapter/ch03.html

Hope this helps
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

telnetrc

telnetrc(4)							   File Formats 						       telnetrc(4)

NAME

       telnetrc - file for telnet default options

DESCRIPTION

       The   .telnetrc	file  contains commands that are executed when a connection is established on a per-host basis. Each line in the file con-
       tains a host name, one or more spaces or tabs, and a telnet(1) command. The host name, DEFAULT, matches all hosts. Lines beginning with the
       pound  sign (#) are interpreted as comments and therefore ignored. telnet(1) commands are case-insensitive to the contents of the .telnetrc
       file.

       The  .telnetrc file is retrieved from each user's  HOME directory.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: A sample file.

       In the following example, a .telnetrc file executes the telnet(1) command, toggle:

       weirdhost toggle crmod
       # Always export $PRINTER
       DEFAULT environ export PRINTER

       The lines in this file indicate that the toggle argument crmod, whose default value is "off" (or FALSE), should be enabled when	connecting
       to  the	system weirdhost. In addition, the value of the environment variable  PRINTER should be exported to all systems. In this case, the
       DEFAULT keyword is used in place of the host name.

FILES

       $HOME/.telnetrc

SEE ALSO

       telnet(1), in.telnetd(1M), environ(5)

SunOS 5.10							    9 Jan 1998							       telnetrc(4)
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