Hello,
I want to write a perl script to switch user (to root). The problem is that since it asks for the password, I am not sure how I would pass it thru the script. I know I can run the "su root" with the system command in perl, but how do I take care of passing the password.
Thanks.
http://expect.nist.gov/
spawn /bin/su $userid "-c /usr/bin/passwd"
However no matter HOW you decide to do it the solution will not be secure; you might want to see if suid scripts are secure on your system and take that route...
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