RE: sudo in script -- automate with password

        This is my tuppence worth and this may be a statement of the "bleedin' obvious" as we say \ here, but doesn't this kind of defeat the security purpose of sudo? Putting passwords in \ files should always be avoided not only is it a security risk but supposing you are away \ for a week or two, someone changes the password for the target account, next thing you may \ have critical processes failing and no one understand why or where to correct it.

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On \ Behalf Of amit.poddar_at_yale.edu
Sent: 04 Jan 2006 21:25
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Subject: Re: sudo in script -- automate with password

this works for me

sudo -S ls -ltr I have got a database script that mid-way through the script it needs
> to log in as sudo and run a process. The problem is the sudo
> password. I can't figure out a way to put it in the script instead
> of manually having to enter it. Pulling the password from a password
> file doesn't seem to work either. Has anyone else found a solution
> to this or needed to do this? The OS is AIX and it is Oracle 9202.
> Is there a special syntax that needs to be used?
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