What are you trying to accomplish by doing su to root and passing the password? There are other ways of having jobs/processes run as root... "su " is not going to accept any redirection on the input...

M

>>> "Richard Flores " <oracledba-ezmlmshield-x85586216.[Email address protected] 08/31/04 02:59PM >>>
The password it wants in not read by "stdin", so you can't do a simple
redirect.

You have to use something like the "expect" utility.

-----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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