You could also ask your System Administrator to set up a sudo for you. Not sure if this is possible in all UNix flavors, but in AIX you can set up a sudo which mimics being root.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hagemaier
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x73536710.[Email address protected]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:19 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: su'ing in a UNIX script


Jay-
In a case like this you should work with your system administrator.
Maybe you could write a script to do what you're after, then
have the administrator change the permissions on it to rwsr-xr-w
or whatever is appropriate.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Sethi
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x84237029.[Email address protected]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:49 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: su'ing in a UNIX script


Hi,

I need to pass the Password to the superuser command as follows:

su - superuser_id

As is, the above when executed from the command line expects after the
string "Password:" on the next line.

I can not get root privileges.

Thanks.
Jay




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