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Have a look at sudo and /etc/sudoers - it wouldn't be wise to ever pass a root password in a script that can be read by anyone and it will prompt you for the password
With sudo you could have a user run a command as another user - this is done by editing /etc/sudoers - some examples should be at the bottom of the file
Distribution: Linux Mint 12, FreeBSD, Ubuntu 12.10, Mac OS X
Posts: 83
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Hi all,
Thanks for your inputs, but I figured it all out. Thank heavens for google. I wrote a bash script which checks for a connection to my phone. Then, I made that script executable and placed it in cron.
Problem solved now my phone automatically asks me to start the desktop remote feature every 20 minutes through the power of cron.
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
#script to switch bluetooth phone to hci-mode
/etc/init.d/bluetooth start
hidd --server
hid2hci
#Now we start the connection from the linux machine, no need to press any
#button on the hardware...
hidd --search
hidd --connect 00:12:EE:47:5A:92
Then, the cron job:
20 * * * * /home/ai/./k700.sh
That's all! No passwords needed. I did have to put the cron job in as root though, which is probably why I don't need a password.
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