Korn shell and Su

[Senseial]

Hello

I need help with something and I am not sure it can be done but you never know.
Working with Unix Korn Shell can I automate a script using su (user_name) send password and execute few commands like pgp a file as that user and exit back to my session. What ever I tried it will sit at Password: . So much for automation. Can I send password and enter command in Korn shell script to accomplish this????
Thank You

 

[feherke]

Hi

Do you have [tt]sudo[/tt] ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Senseial]

first few lines:
#!/bin/ksh
su ingenix
expect "Password: "
send "passwordhere\r"

no matter what it sits and is waiting for me to enter password manually?

 

[Senseial]

Never mind this will not work. I don't have expect and send installed and they will not install this anyway. I need to work with echo. I am not sure if this can be done.
Thanks anyway

 

[SamBones]

You can't use [tt]echo[/tt] and redirection to give [tt]su[/tt] the password. The command [tt]su[/tt] doesn't use [tt]stdin[/tt] to take in the password, it opens and reads from [tt]/dev/tty[/tt], which you can't redirect to/from. I believe "[tt]expect[/tt]" is your only option.

 

[SamBones]

You can use [tt]ssh[/tt] to run a script as another user without having to supply a password. It would look like...

#!/bin/ksh

ssh ingenix@localhost "command"

You'd have to share the public key first. There are a number of threads here on Tek-Tips that explain how to set it up.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I would still use [tt]sudo[/tt]. [tt]ssh[/tt] is a workaround, [tt]sudo[/tt] was invented for this situation.

Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments.

http://sudo.ws/

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Senseial]

Thank you guys. I will try ssh, but I am not sure if it will work. as for sudo they will not allow. I know that.