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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: sudo in script -- automate with password
Programs such as sudo, passwd, etc. that prompt for a password (not
sqlplus) do not take those passwords from the command line. This means
that you cannot use a here-document for these types of activities.
Instead, you will need to control the tty device. The only way I know
to do this is to use the expect utility or the Perl Expect module.
However, this will mean you will need to hard-code the password into your shell script. If this is something you do not want or cannot do, then you will have to create an entry in the sudoers file to allow the command to be executed without a password.
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Ron Reidy
Lead DBA
Array BioPharma, Inc.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of J. Dex
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:04 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: sudo in script -- automate with password
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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