RE: Allowing users to execute shell scripts without seeing password

Yes, you must have read permission also to execute a script:

## As user1 (file owner):
/mnt1/oracle ->cat test.ksh

date

/mnt1/oracle:$ ll test.ksh

-rwx-----x 1 oracle dba 10 Feb 16 11:27 test.ksh

## As user2:
/mnt1/oracle:$ test.ksh

test.ksh: Cannot find or open the file.

## As user1 (file owner):
/mnt1/oracle ->chmod 705 test.ksh
/mnt1/oracle ->ll test.ksh

-rwx---r-x 1 oracle dba 5 Feb 16 11:32 test.ksh

## As user2:
/mnt1/oracle:$ ./test.ksh

Thu Feb 16 11:33:31 PST 2006

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of David Sharples Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:36 AM To: fred_fred_1_at_hotmail.com
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Allowing users to execute shell scripts without seeing password

sudo?

you shouldnt need to give them read access to execute a script though - something wrong there maybe  

On 2/16/06, Fred Smith <fred_fred_1_at_hotmail.com> wrote: I've been trying to figure out a way that I can have my users allowed to login to the server (HP-UX) with their own account and run a shell script that's owned my me ... but I don't want them to be able to see the password. I had no luck just granting them execute on the shell script, they had to have read priviledges in order to execute it apparently. Any suggestions??  

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