sudo command

[John Purser]

Bob,

Just a thought.  You might want to have a look at your sudoers file and
see if either program is specifically mentioned.  Then check to see what
your sudo permissions are (user and group).  Sudo can grant a variety of
permissions based on who's calling it and what program they're trying to
run.  Also there's a "time out" where if a user successfully calls sudo
then he won't be asked for his password again for any sudo session for
the next 15 minutes (default config).  

Finally I'd look at the permissions of those programs to see what the
effective user and group IDs are when they actually run.  Mostly just
from permissions paranoia.

John Purser 


On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 22:35 +0000, N1UAN Bob wrote:
> Ok the script name is ham.sh and in the root dir
> in the /etc/rc.local file i have
> cd /root
> ./ham.sh
> and everything in that script run but that one line i posted
> Thanks
> Bob
> 
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Karl Auer wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 21:52 +0000, N1UAN Bob wrote:
> > > ok here are the cmds one works and the other doesnt
> > >
> > > sudo /usr/sbin/net2kiss -i ax0 /dev/ptys3 &   this one works
> > > sudo /usr/sbin/flexd   this one doesnt work
> > > the second line that doesnt work is suppose to connect to another program
> > > and send data to it but has an connect error if i do this cmd from the cmd
> > > prompt it ask for an password and then it send the data but in the script
> > > it wont
> >
> > Sorry, I missed the start of this thread. Please post the exact and
> > complete command line you are using to execute the script. My guess is
> > that you are redirecting standard output and/or standard input, and that
> > this is swallowing your password prompt and/or your password (probably
> > along with your redirected input).
> >
> > Regards, K.
> >
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