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Old 07-09-2007
su and password in a Perl script

Hi,

I will have to login as a different user using su and run some commands.


I want to automate the following through Perl:
su - user
and provide password thru script
check if the login is successful or not.
run some commands


Can you please let me know?

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Lakshmi
# 2  
Old 07-09-2007
I have seen people doing this with "Expect" in Perl. Documentation here:

http://search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect-1.20/Expect.pod
# 3  
Old 07-10-2007
Thanks for the response!!!

I do not have CPAN module installed, I was looking for something which will not need the CPAN module. Guess there is no other easy way..Will try it out.

Regards,
Lakshmi
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