Re^3: Passing Password through Perl Script

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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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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]

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