topic Re: Scripting Question in Operating System - HP-UX

Scripting Question

TheJuiceman — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:17:49 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

Brian Crabtree — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 03:05:13 GMT

su username -c "script"

While logged in as root, this will not ask for a password.

Brian

Re: Scripting Question

Ricardo Bassoi — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 04:12:07 GMT

Hi,

If you are login with the user root then:

su - $USER -c $COMMAND

An example is:

su - user -c "ls -al"

Regards,

Bassoi

Re: Scripting Question

Franky Leeuwerck_1 — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 07:14:04 GMT

Hello,

You can do this even as a cron job by adding an entry in the crontab, example :

01 4 * * * su - myUser /pathToScript/script

Be sure that your script invokes the necessary environment variables.

Franky

Re: Scripting Question

vasundhara — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:03:36 GMT

Hi,

This can be achieved by using sticky bit concept also. I am also not perfect with sticky bit concept, but I know u can use this to set effective user id / real user id.

Regards
VJ.