Re^2: Passing Password through Perl Script

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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Re^3: Passing Password through Perl Script by johngg (Canon) on Aug 09, 2012 at 10:46 UTC
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	[reply]
Re^4: Passing Password through Perl Script by Anonymous Monk on Aug 09, 2012 at 19:21 UTC
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.	[reply] [d/l]