[mythtv-users] Can I SU to root w/o typing a password?
John Klimek
jmk396 at psu.edu
Fri Jul 18 13:10:21 EDT 2003
Is there any semi-secure way to SU to root?
I'm running mythfrontend on my X-Box and when the frontend exits it runs
"halt" to shut off the x-box. However, halt must be run as root and my
x-box logs in as a different user by default.
Now I think I could type "su -c halt" to switch to root, then run halt, but
it will still prompt me for a password.
How could I have it automatically type in a password?
Also, is my syntax right for switching to root then running halt? I want my
xbox to shutdown when I exit mythtv (using the option in the mythfrontend
settings).
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