Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 09:46:50 -0500 (CDT) From: hirsh@skypoint.com (Roger P Johnson) To: mak@webcrawler.com (Martijn Koster) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su and not prompt for password? howto in 2.2.2 Message-ID: <m0whcIU-00010FC@mirage.skypoint.com> In-Reply-To: <19970626220255.43622@webcrawler.com> from "Martijn Koster" at Jun 26, 97 10:02:55 pm
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> On Thu, Jun 26, 1997 at 03:18:53PM -0500, Roger P Johnson wrote:
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> > Ok. This should be easy.
> >
> > In 2.1.5 I have myself a member of group wheel, thus when I do:
> > $ su
> > #
> >
> > I get the root prompt without the passwd.
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> Ehr -- that shouldn't happen as far as I know. Sure you have a password,
> and no 0 uid?
You are absolutely correct. I just checked both 2.1.5 machines and I don't have
any root passwords on them, whereas I do have a password on 2.2.2. Changing
or adding a password to the 2.1.5 machine and I have the same dilema.
I get prompted for the password.
This leads me to my next question.
Q. How does one then use the su command in shell scripts as in:
su root -c "chmod 540 foo.bar"
without prompting for the password??
I do not wish to leave the root accounts without a password (like I have
been doing!)
What I am doing is setting file perms, ownership, and file clean out
for a point of sale application every morning so everything is set
for the next days biz.
Q. I ought to check out sudo(8) instead I guess?
-Roger
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