sudo in a shell script

[Johann Spies]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:20:21PM +0430, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:
> I want to write a shell script like this:
> 
> 	sudo rmmod ipw2200
> 	sudo modprobe ipw2200
...
> Are there any options available for sudo for
> passing the password directly to it instead
> of waiting for the prompt?


One way of doing it is to enable a passwordless sudo for the user that
runs the script for that spesific command.  I use this technique to
allow nagios to use some commands on my servers.  In /etc/sudoers I
use this:

nagios ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/telq, /bin/df

Regards
Johann
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