> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:53 AM, abhisheks <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> > i am developing a web application using apache wickets. I need to call a
> > shell script residing on my local disk from java code.
> >
> > this is the section of code under concern :
> >
> > ProcessBuilder builder = new
> >
> ProcessBuilder("sh","/media/drive_/MtechDocuments/ProgramingNOTES/RunShellfromJAVA/test.sh");
> > builder.redirectErrorStream(true);
> > final Process process =
> builder.start();
> > }
> > process.waitFor();
> >
> > ------
> >
> > This is piece of code successfully runs fine and execute a shell when
> this
> > code is a part of java prgram residing anywhere on my laal disk. However,
> > when i make a jar file of a progeam , put in webapps folder , and start
> the
> > web application , it reports permission denied error on test.sh script.
> >
> > I then modify the line as :
> >
> > ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder("sudo", "-A",
> >
> "sh","/media/drive_/MtechDocuments/ProgramingNOTES/RunShellfromJAVA/test.sh");
> > and set the SUDO_ASKPASS env variable to script returning my sudo
> password ,
> > then it reports the following error :
> > sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts and script calling is failed. Again
> this
> > works correctly when i run the program outside the web development
> > environment , it is able to read my sudo password correctly at run time
> with
> > -A option. Why is it failing when running the same program from web
> > application ? please help !!
>
> Maybe your web server runs with a user which has no permissions to
> become different user (via sudo).
> When you run it as a normal Java program you run it with your user
> which has this permission.
>
> In any case it has nothing to do with Wicket.
>
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