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Amarendu,

What is the question?

Do you need to encrypt the password?

Do you need to save it in a safe place, etc??

Thank you

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Re^2: Passing Password through Perl Script
by Amarendu (Initiate) on Aug 09, 2012 at 10:08 UTC
    I have a user named "hduser" and the password of the user is say "xyz123". Now I need a automated script for it so that I can get logged in as hduser without prompting for it's password. For example I have written a perl script as follows: #!/usr/bin/perl system ("su hduser && <xyz123>"); I need to set the user password for hduser. Please help urgently. Thanks a lot in advance.
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      If you want your script to run with the privileges of user "hduser" without having to enter that user's password you should probably investigate Secure Shell.

      Cheers,

      JohnGG

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        That, or root privileges. (su asks no password if started as root.) But ssh is a good idea, and so would be a properly configured sudo.

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