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Changing to su in a script

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tbohon

tbohon

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Apr 20, 2000
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In a BASH script, how do I change to su to perform maintenance and get the root's password to automatically echo to the script?
 
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spawn su -

expect "password";

send "passwd\n"

expect "*#";

interact =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Unix Systems Engineer
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 
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