[mythtv-users] Can I SU to root w/o typing a password?

[Steve Hill]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, John Klimek wrote:

> 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.

Just setuid the halt process as root.

chown root.root halt
chmod 4711 halt

Or use sudo, or set up some passwordless ssh keys (probably a bad idea coz 
that really does mean unauthenticated root shell access)

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