Re: [shell-script] su

[Julio Neves]

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solaris:
Hi,
i am writing a little script for a user to run to
perform a shutdown.
How in this script i do "su" and include the password
for the "root"
so that the user should not deal with it?.
Jim
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This is not the most secure way. Everybody can read the root's password at 
this script. Why don't you try this:

1 - Write a script named ShutItDown with a single line with the shutdonw 
command.
2 - Create a user named ShutDownAgent
3 - edit the /etc/passwd and:
3.1 - Change the user id to 0 (zero). Every user with UID=0 is a root
3.2 - Change the last field of this record (the name of its default shell) 
to /<path>/ShutItDown.

Every time ShutDownAgent logs in, the computer will be shuted down and you 
don't need to explicit the root's password.

[ ]s,
Julio