I've got some scripts which are intended to run on a new EC2 instance
right after it is created. Since the script needs to install packages it
need to run as root. But because I don't have sudo installed at this
point (it is a brand new instance), I've only got 'su' to get root.
The script itself is launched over SSH with the ec2-user account and
there is no root password at this point in the startup.
My first attempt was to put this inside the script itself:
if ["$($whoami)" !="root" ];thenexec su -c"$0" exit1 fi
But su complains that I'm not allowed to execute a command using the -c
option as root.
How else can I get this script running as root remotely in a completely
unattended way?
Cheers
Ari Maniatis
