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How can i su automaticaly in same server with different username and same password?

Hi I am new to shell scripting,
Can you please help me in writing a script that can switch user in same server with different user name and same password.
I want to perform some functional task in a particular user and need to switch user and perform same activity in another user and so on ...

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What I dont get is the "same passwd" and writing a script ... How do you think you will get the password to be read? Are you talking of a sofware like Oracle ( which accepts ) or true UNIX su?
My understanding is if itwere for some batch launched by cron then as root it can be done and you care not about password...

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I want to give password at first time and after that it should not ask for password for different username as password will be same for other users that i already given at first SU

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su does not work that way. Period.

ssh can work that way if you arrange for key based authentication and explicitly tell it to forward the key.

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