1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All I am running into a situation where I am running a script as another user lets say oracle using su command as below, and the script fails because the .profile of oracle is not executed so the environment variables are not set. cat /etc/passwd | grep oracle... (4 Replies)

2. Cybersecurity

Hi all, I have a situation where I have a shell script that I need to run remotely on multiple *nix machines via SSH. Unfortunately, some of the commands in it require root access. I know that best practices for ssh entail configuring it so that the root account cannot log in, you need to... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

1) Environment:Red Hat Linux, bash shell Script to be run owned by user :myUser Home environment of myUser: pathto/home 2) ESP agent with root access will run JobXXX.sh su - myUser -c "/pathto/home/bin/script.sh" where script.sh has some echo statements and an exit statement in the end... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have to run C++ file using root programming, using following commands: $root -l root .L TwoTrees.C++ root TwoTrees t root t.Loop() root.q I wonder if I can write script to do the following. Thanks Pooja (12 Replies)

5. Solaris

In my ENV every one has sudo access to "XYZ" user and they run the script any time. can you please suggest how could I identify who has executed script after sudo user XYZ ? OS : sunSolaris process of login Step 1 : user login with his own username and PWD Step 2 : sudo to XYZ user... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a script (ksh) that has permissions 775 and owned by root.system. This script takes the parameter of a full file name and chmods the file to 666 and changes ownership to user smith.staff. ex: modify_file.ksh /home/smith/filea modify_file.ksh has 775 and root.system ownership. The... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, my script.sh has the below lines, and i need to run the script as root or wam. please tell me if this will work #!/bin/bash sudo -t wam /usr/local/wam/stopwam -r ------- this needs run as wam user /usr/local/web/stopweb -a --- this needs to run as... (18 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

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9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, I am trying to run a command within my KSH script as another user due to permission issues, now both users are non root. I have tried the following command and was unsuccessful: echo "<password>" | sudo -S -u <username> -k command Can I use sudo to run a command as a non-root user? (5 Replies)

10. Programming

hi all, i think i have got the solution for this but want to run it past you guys first when i run a script sometimes its necassary to sudo to root so it can create users, chmod etc etc, the normal way for me doing this is just to simply run the script as root but i have created a user... (11 Replies)