[sudo-users] Unable to change user in script

[Aaron Spangler]

Do you want sudo to prompt for a password or are you just strying to
suppress it?

How about modifying your sudoers entry to include NOPASSWD: before the
command(s) being allowed, then sudo won't prompt for a password and ksh
won't have to try to force feed it.

Hope this helps.

- Aaron


> I wrote the following ksh script to automatically change the user ID.
>
>
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> #!/usr/bin/ksh
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> PASSWD=test1
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>
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> sudo -S su - otheruser << EOF
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>    echo $PASSWD
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> EOF
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>
>
> When I run the script the passwd is passed to the su command properly but
> I
> get the following
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> error message every time I run the program
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>
>
> Password:
>
> Sorry, try again.
>
> Password:
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> sudo: 1 incorrect password attempt
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>
>
> I've checked that I am user "test1_user" and my passwd is test1.
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>
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> Does anyone have any clues of why my script is failing?
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>
>
> TIA
>
>
>
> Steffen
>
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