topic Scripting question in Operating System - HP-UX

Scripting question

TheJuiceman — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:15:23 GMT

How can I execute a script as another user while logged in as root? I need to be able to do this without the system asking me for that user's password. Any help is appreciated.

Re: Scripting question

malay boy — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:20:41 GMT

well you can used su -c .

Example : let say the user script call find_file.sh

so :

su mb -c "/home/find_file.sh"

hope this help.

Re: Scripting question

Michael Tully — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:20:53 GMT

Well if your root, you can use any account. Typically you use:

su - account -c "command"

Using this example as root, you won't need a password.

Re: Scripting question

Con O'Kelly — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:22:14 GMT

Hi

I guess the following should work:
# su - -c "/fullpath/scriptname"

Cheers
Con

Re: Scripting question

twang — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:41:22 GMT

If you login as root and use "su", system will not ask for a password, simple issue the following to test and see:
# su - -c date

Re: Scripting question

Kevin O'Donovan — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 07:35:10 GMT

I know this is already sorted, but just another possibility to throw in there...

If its a particular user, you could set the owner of the file to the user you want to run it as, and then set the setuid bit, so it will run as the user its owned by. Do this with chmod +s .

Note this can pose a bit of a security risk but its an alternative to the su -c everyone else has!

Kev.