Re: Faster way to do su

Erm, why not just write a script which does what you want (perl or sh) and then use sudo to let it run as root (or whomever) without prompting for a password rather than mucking with su in the first place?

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Re: Re: Faster way to do su by jcpunk (Friar) on Apr 16, 2004 at 21:49 UTC
This program, when completed (the Net::Telnet version is) will run as part of a webserver. Putting user nobody (or apache depending) into the sudoers file is usually considered bad form. jcpunk all code is tested, and doesn't work so there :p (varient on common PM sig for my own ammusment)	[reply]