On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 08:22:14PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Is there a way to enter ones password for sudo when putting sudo in > a script? Something akin to > > sudo -p mypassword mv /var/log/exim/mainlog . > If the commands are executed within the password timeout, then it'll ask once, otherwise it'll ask again. How long is your timeout?