reading a other users variables

[stierenkeutel]

Hi,

I'm making a script that change the root password every 12 hours! the idea is: that when a user logged in he need to read first his mail with a new password. The script (that is running as root in cron) sends the mail with the new password by doing
echo "this is the new password: $pasword" |mail -s "password" user
When user opens his mail to have a look to the new password it shows him: "this is the new password: " So it seems that user can't read the variable because itś a variable of root. Is there a way that only a special group of users can't read this variable?

Thanks for your help!

With kind regards

Jerome Kuchler

[RobinVossen]

I think you are making a slim mistake.
If you write a daemon that runs are root that waits for a command over dbus or another form of ipc it will wrok fine.

Show us what you have now


ps. Good to see some decent people are here (I am refering to the fact you are from Nijmegen, as am I )


Edit: pps. Why would you want this anyway? There are better More secure ways to hide the root password.