Hi, Grr, I've been bit by the script bug. Just found out the hard way that you can't use 'su -c' in a script if you are trying to grab it from a webpage and run it. I get the error "standard in must be a tty". Need this to work for end-users, any ideas or workarounds? Anyone see this before ? Thanks in advance.
EXAMPLE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ *curl http://somehost.com/reinstall_package.sh | bash* % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 4313 100 4313 0 0 36125 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 3234k checking credentials ... Please enter the Administrator (root) password. *standard in must be a tty* CODE : # --- Check for 'Root' credentials CMDLN_ARGS="$@" # Command line arguments for this script export CMDLN_ARGS # Run this script as root if not already. # if passed silent option, will exit on failure. chk_root () { temp_cond="$1" if [ ! $( id -u ) -eq 0 ]; then if [ "$temp_cond" != "silent" ] ;then echo "Please enter the Administrator (root) password." exec su -c "${0} ${CMDLN_ARGS}" # Call this prog as root exit ${?} # sice we're 'execing' above, we wont reach this exit # unless something goes wrong. else # the 'silent' option has been set - just exit. echo "root privilages have not been met ." exit 1 fi fi } _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
