Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Scott,

My previous post was not for any school or college projects. I am currently working with a IT company (Cannot provide more details than this). I am trying to implement the below script in my day-to-day work,

Apologies for the confusion in previous post . My question remains same

1. Building a shell script which connects to a remote server
2. running script on local machine as user 'A'
3. connecting to server using user 'B' with password
4. login with a powerbroker role 'P' (asks for same password as 'B') on that server
5. edit a file and save it
6. Exit from server

Thanks,
Nishant

2 questions.
a) What do you mean by a powerbroker role 'P'?
b) What kind of edition do you want to make to that file in the remote host? Will you be adding / deleting text, dates, logs... etc?

Thanks for your reply
Answers:
2. Powerbroker is a kind of privileged access management. Users will be added to that group that will have certain elevated privileges. In this case, user 'B' is added to the powerbroker group 'B' that has certain roles/privileges. Users can edit the file only after sudo'ing pb 'B'.
3. I want to comment 2 lines and uncomment other 2 lines in that file and save the file.

Hope this helps

I am beginning to think that this will be harder than I first thought (if you're looking at automating this thing). Can you please provide an example of that file, BEFORE and AFTER you edit it?

Also, what OS / version are you on?

This files provides the Oracle database schema username and password that the application should use while running

dname=somedb
#<Option 1 >
#schema1username=schema1
#schema1password=schema1pwd
#<Option 2>
schema2username=schema2
schema2password=schema2pwd

I have to uncomment the <Option1 > username and password and comment <Option 2> username and password. Then I have to start the application.

Its RHEL 5.