[LUG] shell scripts

["Paul Sutton" <psutton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I am starting to learn shell scripts and have a basic script which just
mounts a cdrom drive,

#!/bin/bash
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
echo cd mounted

I need to add some more error checking but it works,   as I need to su in
order to use the mount command is it possible to pass the root password on
to the su command as part of a script.

I was thinking su <password may work,  but would like something more secure,
like getting the details from /etc/passwd and passing this on,  save a user
having to do it.

thanks

Paul


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