Re: sudo in script -- automate with password

  • From: Maimon Oded <oded.maimon@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: GJohnson@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:51:38 +0200

you don't need sudo to do login with password and run commands..
sudo is more for a use without password..
like David said, set the sudoers file..


On 1/5/06, Johnson, George <GJohnson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>        This is my tuppence worth and this may be a statement of the
> "bleedin' obvious" as we say here, but doesn't this kind of defeat the
> security purpose of sudo? Putting passwords in files should always be
> avoided not only is it a security risk but supposing you are away for a week
> or two, someone changes the password for the target account, next thing you
> may have critical processes failing and no one understand why or where to
> correct it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of amit.poddar@xxxxxxxx
> Sent: 04 Jan 2006 21:25
> To: cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: Re: sudo in script -- automate with password
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>
> this works for me
>
> sudo -S ls -ltr << EOF
> password
> EOF
>
>
> Quoting "J. Dex" <cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> > I have got a database script that mid-way through the script it needs
> > to log in as sudo and run a process.  The problem is the sudo
> > password.  I can't figure out a way to put it in the script instead
> > of manually having to enter it.  Pulling the password from a password
> > file doesn't seem to work either.  Has anyone else found a solution
> > to this or needed to do this?   The OS is AIX and it is Oracle 9202.
> > Is there a special syntax that needs to be used?
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