Root access in a script

chichibabin · 07-27-2004, 03:38 PM

Hi
I would like to write a script that can be executed by a normal user which contains commands that require root privileges. There must be some way of executing the su command from within the script followed by the root password, execute the desired commands and then log back to the normal user?
Cheers
Sat

dxdad · 07-27-2004, 03:46 PM

Is "sudo" not the thing to use for this?

itsme86 · 07-27-2004, 03:47 PM

You definitely don't want to put the root password in your script. Then any user would be able to get root access just by looking at the script file.

dxdad · 07-27-2004, 04:01 PM

Depending on what it was you wanted to run as root you could set the file as SUID