Hi
It won't work for the simple reason that password are read form keyboard(tty?)
and not from stdin. It's like difference between getpasswd and scanf...
Shridhar
Surkit M wrote:
>
> I want a script to that effect which I can give 711 premisssions.
> I wrote this
> #!/bin/bash
> su root
> echo <password>
> kppp
>
> I thought it would work, it doesn't. Please suggest corrections or
> alterations.
> Also I would want that the shell window closes automatically once the
> user has quit kppp or user logs out of root
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