switch user without giving a password

[Mart van Loon]

Hi,
is it possible to switch to another user without giving a password? For su this is only for root

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Mart,

in my opinion only root is not asked to enter a password when doing a su. All other users have to enter a passwd no matter to which user they want to switch. ( as long as you don't create a second user with UID 0! )

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

[Rich Wright]

Depending on what you want to do, you might want to look at Restricted Sam or sudo.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

If you are logged in as root, you can do a su to another system without giving a password. But if you are logged in as any other user (without superuser priviledges), you'll have to supply a password while doing an su to another user.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Systeemingenieurs Infoc]

In a c-program, it should be prossible i guess.

man 1M setprivgrp - section SETRUGID

Never tried it out though

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

There are following sceanorios


1. Login to another user from root < no passwd is required >

2.logging in from a user to another user n then u need to have the passwd may be you

3.may be you can try rlogin -l user name after setting it in $HOME of the suers.



Manoj Srivastava

[Hamdy Al-Sebaey]

Hi Maart,
I think I gave U the answer on this question, to make clearly to U just take this,
You cannot provide the password to the su within the script. You will always be prompted interactively.

If you are root, you can write:

# su - oracle -c
This will run Good luck,
Hamdy

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

Any user except root is asked for the password during switching.

You can use sudo software if you do not want to be asked for the password. If you don't have sudo software use the following link to download it,

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.6/

Piyush

[Hamdy Al-Sebaey]

Hi Mart,
I think U can do the following,
Simple - Create a user with uid "0".

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Good luck,
Hamdy