Hi!
From what it looks to me you should consider using sudo for your task. There you can allow in a very detailed way certain commands to be executed without giving a password. Hardcoding the root password into a script as you try seems to me very risky...
- Martin
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, STEPHANE DURIEUX wrote:
Hi,
I have made a short script with the su command within I have tried : echo -ne "password\n"|su - root But it gives me the following message. su : must be run from a terminal Have you any idea
Thanks
Stephane Durieux
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