Run "onmode" in a script spawned out from a sctipt

>> Jonathan Leffler wrote: "The original error message should, and I believe does, say 'Must be a DBSA to run this program'"<< - Yes, it is. It was my mistyping. - The userid we place in /etc/group for informix is "batch", which is only used by our admin. poeple to run some special jobs at night. Its is not a common userid that other people can use. >>> Ken Doe mentioned about the visudo command to make an entry as "userid(batch) hostname(crtes) = (informix) "NOPASSWD: /home/accounting/bin/hdr_manage" # (inside this script the onmode command is run). I only find out the /etc/sudoers (see attached), but don't know how to make entry with visudo although it is mentioned in this sudoers text file (There is no visudo command in our system, SunOS 5.9) I would much appreciate if you can advise me how to implement these entries. I am an AP and there is no DBA guy in our small team; and the Unix administrator can't help much. Regards, Long Nguyen. (See attached file: sudoers.doc)

Guys- I wrote a C program which uses the setresuid() and setresgid() commands to allow a script run by a lower permission user to execute ontape -s and run our Informix backups without ever knowing the Informix password. You could do something similar, perhaps passing the command you want to run into a C program and checking it against an approved list before the program executes it. --EEM -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Long Nguyen Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:11 AM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: Run "onmode" in a script spawned out from a sc.... [8324] >> Jonathan Leffler wrote: "The original error message should, and I believe does, say 'Must be a DBSA to run this program'"<< - Yes, it is. It was my mistyping. - The userid we place in /etc/group for informix is "batch", which is only used by our admin. poeple to run some special jobs at night. Its is not a common userid that other people can use. >>> Ken Doe mentioned about the visudo command to make an entry as "userid(batch) hostname(crtes) = (informix) "NOPASSWD: /home/accounting/bin/hdr_manage" # (inside this script the onmode command is run). I only find out the /etc/sudoers (see attached), but don't know how to make entry with visudo although it is mentioned in this sudoers text file (There is no visudo command in our system, SunOS 5.9) I would much appreciate if you can advise me how to implement these entries. I am an AP and there is no DBA guy in our small team; and the Unix administrator can't help much. Regards, Long Nguyen. (See attached file: sudoers.doc) ************************************************************************ ******* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.