Well they'll have you put your password in because for security purposes <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <<a href="mailto:smoot@tic.com">smoot@tic.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. -- Smoot Carl-Mitchell System/Network Architect <a href="mailto:smoot@tic.com">smoot@tic.com</a> +1 480 922 7313 cell: +1 602 421 9005 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>