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how to write su in shell script

rajesh73 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:28:27 GMT

i want to check license status in another user login .i have su permission in sudo file.

kindly find the step to find the license status
sudo su - kumar
cd /home/kumar/lic
lmstat lic |more

Question
kindly help how to write this script in my
login

Re: how to write su in shell script

Shibin_2 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:35:55 GMT

Simply put all those in a file and give it an execute permission.

vi script
#!/bin/ksh
sudo su - kumar
cd /home/kumar/lic
lmstat lic |more
:wq!

chmod 755 script

Now run it

./script

Re: how to write su in shell script

rajesh73 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:22:57 GMT

after command excuted loged in kumar but license status command not running

find the output
rajesh &./lic
(c)Copyright 1983-2000 Hewlett-Packard Co., All Rights Reserved.
(c)Copyright 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985-1993 The Regents of the Univ. of California
(c)Copyright 1980, 1984, 1986 Novell, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1986-1992 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1985, 1986, 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(c)Copyright 1989-1993 The Open Software Foundation, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1986 Digital Equipment Corp.
(c)Copyright 1990 Motorola, Inc.
(c)Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992 Cornell University
(c)Copyright 1989-1991 The University of Maryland
(c)Copyright 1988 Carnegie Mellon University
(c)Copyright 1991-2000 Mentat Inc.
(c)Copyright 1996 Morning Star Technologies, Inc.

&

Re: how to write su in shell script

Shibin_2 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:33:16 GMT

Find, where is lmstat command located

you may have to specify the path.

whereis lmstat or find / -name 'lmstat*'

Then add that path to above script and try.

Re: how to write su in shell script

rajesh73 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:05:42 GMT

rajesh &more lic
sudo su - kumar -----1st line
more /home/kumar/lic/lmstat lic |more -----2nd line

tha above mentioned script after 1st line excuted successfully ,but 2nd line not excuted after the put ctrl+d then it shows you cannot able to access the cd /home/kumar/lic/lmstat file.

output

rajesh&./lic
after login session

kumar& (script stuck)
ctrl+d
/home/kumar/lic/lmstat : not found.

rajesh$

Re: how to write su in shell script

Earl_Crowder — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:14:14 GMT

sudo su - kumar -c "cd /home/kumar/lic && /path/to/lmstat lic | more"

Re: how to write su in shell script

rajesh73 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:17:57 GMT

after this command it asking the password:

Re: how to write su in shell script

Dennis Handly — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:30:58 GMT

>after this command it asking the password:

Does it ask for a password for:
sudo su - kumar -c "id"

Re: how to write su in shell script

Jayakrishnan G Naik — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:57:35 GMT

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Re: how to write su in shell script

rajesh73 — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:37:32 GMT

Hi Jayakrishnan G Naik,

Sorry, it will not happen in future.

After this command

output
sudo su - kumar -c "id"
Password:

kindly help to sort out this issue

Re: how to write su in shell script

Dennis Handly — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:51:23 GMT

>Sorry, it will not happen in future.

You need to retroactively assign points to all of your replies:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/pageList.do?userId=WW229563&listType=unassigned

>sudo su - kumar -c "id"
Password:
>kindly help to sort out this issue

This means that sudo is not switching to root for this particular user and/or command.
What is it configured to allow?

Re: how to write su in shell script

rajesh73 — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:21:57 GMT

i have configure in sudoers file

/usr/bin/su - kumar

Re: how to write su in shell script

Dennis Handly — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:36:37 GMT

>I have configure in sudoers file
/usr/bin/su - kumar

Does it check to see that the "-c ..." is different?

Re: how to write su in shell script

rajesh73 — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:22:38 GMT

Sorry dennis,

i am not understand your input

Re: how to write su in shell script

Dennis Handly — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:59:47 GMT

>I am not understand your input

Does sudo check for an exact match of the command and ALL the options or only a prefix match?

Does your "/usr/bin/su - kumar" allow:
sudo su - kumar -c "id"
sudo su - kumar -c "cd /home/kumar/lic && /path/to/lmstat lic"