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 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.
>
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> Subject: Re: sudo in script -- automate with password
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> this works for me
>
> sudo -S ls -ltr password
> EOF
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>
> Quoting "J. Dex" :
>
> > 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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