On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:44:51AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > a) Why does a script owned by root and run by root lack root's > permission just because it is in user's directory? Out of my league > b) Why does the script snippet above not work? I don't think you can use sudo that way. Instead you could edit sudoers file (with 'visudo' command): username ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/script > c) How can I do what this script snippet intends without exposing my > plain text password? I think the simplest way would be to put this in /etc/crontab or in a file in /etc/cron.d/ 47 6 * * 7 root /path/to/my/script HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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