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It is if you are logged in as root or su'd to root already.

Villy

: Hi everyone
: I am a beginner in AIX(Unix) world.
: I want to know is it possible to use su command without keyin the passwd
: from the stdin?

No, it's not.

My understanding is that su(1) and passwd(1) both open
the controlling tty directly, which makes redirection
and piping impossible.

You may instead use sudo(1), the source code of which
is available at ftp://ftp.cs.colrado.edu.  You may
also find a pre-compiled version at http://www.bull.de/

Hi everyone
I am a beginner in AIX(Unix) world.
I want to know is it possible to use su command without keyin the passwd
from the stdin?
thx

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:> Villy

This is precisely what's done in a lot of startup scripts -- using the "su
-c" variant from root to start up, say, a daemon like Oracle's.

= Steve =

--
Steve W. Jackson,  Montgomery, Alabama
http://www.mindspring.com/~sjacksn/stevehome.html

For an AIX beginner, compiling and installing SUDO may be a bit much
(took me ages), even the pre-compiled may be a bit OTT.
If you have access, just use the root user, or (*really* bad security)
set passwd's to
(blank)
and then remove the ADMCHG from /etc/security/passwd
or try the $HOME/.rhosts file (look up man pages, again, *bad* security
loop-hole)

Hope this helps

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