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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!pirates!emory!nntp.msstate.edu!Ra.MsState.Edu!aak2 From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How would you do this ? Date: 15 Aug 1995 03:08:01 -0500 Organization: Mississippi State University Lines: 28 Message-ID: <aak2.808473932@Ra.MsState.Edu> References: <aak2.808401125@Ra.MsState.Edu> <FN.95Aug14232715@big-brother.pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra.msstate.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) writes: >In article <aak2.808401125@Ra.MsState.Edu> aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes: >$ I put the command "start-my-program" in file /etc/rc.local but don't >$ know how to autmate enternig the password. I can't be near the machine >$ and remember to enter the password everytime it reboots. Any help would >$ be appreciated. Thanks. >if it takes the password from stdin, i guess you could >echo password | /usr/whatever/program >or something similar. >of course, if anyone reads your /etc/rc.local, they have your password... The way I did it was create a file called doit.sh with read permission only to root with the above line and then ran : /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/doit.sh Not at least not everybody can read that file and I can still execute the program just fine. It works just great. Atif Khan aak2@ra.msstate.edu