Re: su : must be run from a terminal

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.it.helsinki.fi>]

Hi!

From what it looks to me you should consider using sudo for your task. 
There you can allow in a very detailed way certain commands to be executed 
without giving a password. Hardcoding the root password into a script as 
you try seems to me very risky...

- Martin



On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, STEPHANE DURIEUX wrote:

> Hi,
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> I have made a short script with the su command within
> I have tried : echo -ne "password\n"|su - root
> But it gives me the following message.
> su : must be run from a terminal
> Have you any idea
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> Thanks
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>         Stephane Durieux
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