Hi, I am wondering if anybody knows how to include a password in a script. I want to run a backup script as sudo and I need to include the password.
Many thanks.
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I have to cp -R a directory that is not owned by the logged in user. So in order to copy the directory I must run the cp as sudo.
The command is "sudo cp -R " but it will prompt me for a password. I was hoping to build this into the script so it could just read the password and move on to the next line.
If I understand what you're trying to do, you may be able to do it if you echo the password on a pipe into the sudo command. Note that some commands (passwd for example) on some systems seem to be smart enough to *not* accept a password unless it has been entered by the keyboard (eg, echo + pipe won't work here). YMMV.
If this works, I also do not recommend that you do it; in fact, I heartily recommend that you do not do this.
But it's your system, and at the end of the day, your decision to make. Giving you enough rope to hang yourself with is the Unix way. ;)
(Don't!) try something like this:
#!/bin/sh
/bin/echo 'yourpassword' | sudo /path/to/yourcommand ...
You probably want to chmod this file go-rwx...
A more secure solution would be to create a user account that has passwordless sudo access, and then just run the sudo command normally as this user. This user should also not have ssh/etc login priveledges; ie the only way to run a command as this user is by either logging in at the physical machine, or by sshing in on an account that itself has normal password sudo access and using that to become the user.
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by: gheistPosted on 2005-06-26 at 01:13:19ID: 14302999
For what purpose???
read command can read password:
unset IFS REPLY
REPLY=default
echo -n 'Password: '
read PASSWORD >/dev/null
echo $? $PASSWORD