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Old 01-27-2011, 05:32 AM   #1
Rendman
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Question Sending commands to a screen session owned by root.


I am a linux newbie. I have a situation where I need to send a command line -X command to a screen session owned by root from a nonprivliged account. The command is executed by a shell script, which in turn is executed from a PHP script. Is there a way to make this work? I hope I gave enough information. If not please let me know.

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Old 01-27-2011, 05:39 AM   #2
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Connecting to an existing screen session has to be defined in the .screenrc file of the user that established the session. The lines necessary are "multiuser on" and "adduser username". However, it needs to be said that this is an ugly solution. I hope you find something else that works far more cleanly and has more flexibility.
 
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One possible solution is to add your user to the sudoers file. Then:

Code:
as root:
screen -S thesession

as user:
sudo "screen -S thesession -X stuff "ls"`echo -ne '\015'`"
 
Old 01-28-2011, 01:34 AM   #4
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One possible solution is to add your user to the sudoers file. Then:

Code:
as root:
screen -S thesession

as user:
sudo "screen -S thesession -X stuff "ls"`echo -ne '\015'`"
I had thought of doing something like that, but as this needs to run from a script on a sever, which is unattended, I am not sure how to authenticate to sudo. Do you know of way? This would be an ideal solution if there is.
 
  


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