topic Re: starting a shell script with root privileges in Operating System - HP-UX

starting a shell script with root privileges

Maciej Szewczykowski — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:06:47 GMT

Hello,

I've got a simle & short question.

How to start a shell script (also via cron) as a different user that is currently logged in (in praticular, how to do this with root privileges).

Thx in advance.

maciek

Re: starting a shell script with root privileges

LiPEnS — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:10:55 GMT

Hi
Install and configure SUDO
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/download.html

Regards

Re: starting a shell script with root privileges

Luk Vandenbussche — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:11:27 GMT

Hi,

1) interactive : Not possible

2) cron : put it in the crontab of root

Re: starting a shell script with root privileges

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:14:07 GMT

To execute as a different user then use sudo utility to achive this.

IF you want to start as normal user from root user then

# su - -c <script>

IT will work without asking for passwd except root user.

If you want to start from cron with root user then you should use sudo utility to execute this.

hth.

Re: starting a shell script with root privileges

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:24:30 GMT

You can do with another way of using shell pipe(s) as,

(
echo "root"
sleep 2
echo "passwd for root"
sleep 2
echo ""
sleep 1
echo "exit"
) | telnet localhost

You can execute with any user when he is known about root user passwd. It will not ask root user password on command execution. You can store root user, passwd and script in shell variable and use them with cron tab scripting.

hth.

Re: starting a shell script with root privileges

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:31:24 GMT

You can download sudo from http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXIEXP1111

and configuration is available at,
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/man/sudoers.html

-Arun