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Trojan. It was considered, however during initial trials "bob's" variables were not passed to workstationA and the script wouldn't run. We kept getting an exit value of 1 : (syntax or usage error). I should have mentioned that in my first post. Thanks for the thought though. scfc

Further to my last post I have an updated version which works well and every time. The last one seemed tempremental. Anyway here goes:- ssh -C workstationA 'su - bob -c "/path/to/script"' Hope it helps someone else!!

The only difference that I can tell is the positioning of the quotation marks. We both previously had placed the quotes prior to the su command. eg ssh -n workstationA "su - bob -c /path/to/script" The one I have now is:- ssh -n workstationA su - bob -c "/path/to/script" A subtle difference...

I managed to find an old scripts hidden in our archive and found the following:- su - bob -c "/path/to/script" That has done the trick. Thanks to both of you for your input.

PHV. I had tried that but was not getting bobs variables to run the commands. Thanks anyway.

I probably to the syntax too literally. However further study has found that bob didn't become the user to run the script and the ownership of the output belongs to root. I may try to add a script on workstationA that will su - bob and then run the script from within that script. It probably...

Tried that but had error: unexpected end of file. However tried a variation on it and got the result I was after. ssh -n workstationA "su - bob; /path/to/script" Thanks for the help. scfc1976

I am trying to automate a process of copying files from a CD over a network from a host to a remote terminal. Due to the security setup we have I need to SSH as root. However the commands to run a script need the environment of a different user in order to run correctly. I have tried the...

Thanks for the response. I kept getting syntax errors, (probably due to seat to keyboard interface), however I mangaed to sort the problem after a bit of a lay off. My code was:- #! /bin/sh cd /home for file in * do if [ -f $file ] then ucfile=`echo $file | tr '[:upper:]'...

Hi all, I have been looking at various threads in relation to this and haven't been able to get the right result. The closest I have got was to turn all uppercase characters within a file to lowercase. What I need is to change the filename of various files (the amount of which can change at...

Annihilannic. It does the job perfectly. I would have spent hours / days on that. Thank you. scfc1976

Hi all. As a new user of AWK and a inexperienced programmer I could use a bit of help with a little problem. I have a file that could change depending on what users are acessing the file. This file is then used to update information on a database. File example: "Text","data","word","word1"...