su command question

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 10:57 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu Server 8.04 and I'm creating a bash script to start
> a server program as follows:
> 
> su ventrilo -c "/etc/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d"
> 
> However, the 'su' command makes me insert the password for user
> 'ventrilo' when I run the bash script containing the line of code
> above. How can I make this work without the password prompt? I also
> don't want this to be a security issue (for example, I don't want
> people to be able to connect to my server using PuTTY and login as
> 'ventrilo' with no password...

You can use "sudo" to do what you want.  e.g.

sudo -u ventrilo /etc/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d

This will prompt you for your own password, but run the command as user
ventrilo. This assumes your account has sudo privileges.


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