starting a shell script with root privileges

[Maciej Szewczykowski]

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

[LiPEnS]

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

Regards

[Luk Vandenbussche · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1) interactive : Not possible

2) cron : put it in the crontab of root

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[Arunvijai_4]

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