[luau] a little script question

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Mon Feb 3 21:47:00 PST 2003


On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:55:31PM -1000, Alvin Murphy wrote:
> I have written a small bash script which starts one of my
> programs (ViaVoice); in order for it to run properly, I have
> to be in supervisor mode, i.e. run "su" and "password" ; my
> question: is there any way to write that into the script
> itself? Thanks

Instead of trying to embed a su into your script, you might
consider getting familiar with sudo. You can setup permissions
so that you can run only that script as root. Just try to avoid
changing the script so that it runs SUID root, because that sets
a precedence for sloppy security practices.

-Vince



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