Hello,

I'm trying to make a user named "backup" that, when logging in, automaticly runs a perl-script (the backup-rutines) instead of a bash shell.

I've done it by changing the /bin/bash in /etc/passwd to the perl-script. But the perl-script runs some tar-commands, and they won't work if not run thru a shell.

I can only make it work by changing passwd back to /bin/bash and then run the perl-script thru .bash_profile ... but this leaves a big security hole if the script is breaked.

Is there a way to solve this?

Regards,
Frank Nørvig

to run a script at start up put the path to it and any options you would send to it, in the file:

/etc/rc.local

hope this helps

johnrat

try creating a shell script wrapper for your program and point to the wrapper in /etc/passwd.

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#!/bin/bash
perl backupprogram.pl

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triggering the backup by loging in is an interesting approach, but why don't you just run it in a cron job or kick it off manually?

-rhett