Re: How to enter the root password into terminal using apple script
Re: How to enter the root password into terminal using apple script
- Subject: Re: How to enter the root password into terminal using apple script
- From: "W. R. Wing" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:50:38 -0400
At 12:09 PM -0600 6/6/05, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 00:00 +0530 6/6/05, selva.ganesan wrote:
Is there any way to supply password (for sudo) directly from the script?
I have been using a file in my home directory named ppas which is
just the text of my password followed by a newline and nothing else.
I set the privileges for the file to 600 as recommended for a
similar file ".netrc" used by ftp clients.
Now I can:
sudo whatever < $HOME/ppas
which feeds sudo via standard input. If sudo has been executed
recently it will not ask for a password and will ignore the standard
in.
Alternatively, you can take advantage of sudo's -S switch. So, for example:
echo $pw | sudo -S whatevercommand
which assumes you've previously stored the password in $pw.
Bill
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