Hello morthed,

Welcome to the Monastery. Well a quick and dirty solution could be to ssh as root do what ever you want exit and continue.

Well ssh might not be the best option what about the Sudo module? You can write a small script to be executed by root. Sample of code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Sudo;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $su;
my $name = "root";
my $pass = "password";
$su = Sudo->new( { sudo         => '/usr/bin/sudo',
           #sudo_args    => '...',
           username     => $name,
           password     => $pass,
           program      => '/home/tinyos/Monks/sample.pl',
           #program_args => '...'
         }
    );

my $result = $su->sudo_run();
if (exists($result->{error})) {
    printf "STDERR: %s\n",$result->{error};
}
else {
    printf "STDOUT: %s",$result->{stdout} if $result->{stdout};
    printf "STDERR: %s",$result->{stderr} if $result->{stderr};
}

print $ENV{USER}."\n";

__END__

$ perl test.pl
STDOUT: root
tinyos

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In the sample.pl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

print $ENV{USER}."\n";

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Hope this helps, BR.

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In reply to Re: Running a perl script with root, changing to another user and then back to root? by thanos1983
in thread Running a perl script with root, changing to another user and then back to root? by morthed

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