Questions tagged [sudo]
The sudo command is a program for some Unix and Unix-Like operating systems, that allows a user to execute programs with the security privileges of another user. Typically those of a superuser or the root user.
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How to allow macOS application to run as root with preserving the user environment?
How to allow macOS application to run as root with preserving the user environment? Or ideally run the app as it is launched from terminal as sudo.
I have macOS application with GUI, MyApp.app and I ...
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How to disable Mac security settings
My story in a nutshell (why I want to do what I'm describing below): my /usr/bin/ld is broken and it's broken for a at least a year it seems. I have a friend of mine with a version of ld from 2023 ...
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sudo still asks password after editing sudoers [duplicate]
I need to execute the command
ssh [email protected] "sudo systemctl stop crs_svc"
in my GitLab YAML script. To do so I have updated the /etc/sudoers file on the host 10.1.0.56 and added the ...
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What happens if you use sudo as root?
What happens if you use sudo as root? I use root by default and many tutorials have sudo and am wondering if there could be any adverse side effects from copying and pasting in sudo apt install ...
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Change Window Title When Start PowerShell with Sudo.exe
I tried starting powershell with Sudo for Windows from CMD or Batch. Works fine. A PowerShell window opens with administrator rights:
rem CMD/BAT
sudo.exe start powershell.exe
Then, I tried adding a ...
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Is it safe to do "snap install" with sudo
I am a root user on a workstation; I give access to others on this system.
They are requesting me to install:
sudo snap install google-cloud-cli
An experienced friend of mine had earlier suggested to ...
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How to properly create a useable disk image for Virtual box?
I can create the disk image of a bootable Linux HDD by using sudo, but then it fails to boot in VirtualBox. My steps are as follows:
dd if=/dev/sde of=sda.img bs=1024 conv=noerror,sync
VBoxManage ...
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Is this missing library something I can install without sudo privileges?
OS
I'm using a CentOS 7 system, which like a red hat system from what I observe (relevant further down the post.)
cat /etc/*-release
CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core)
NAME="CentOS Linux"
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sudo user input sanitize, to avoid error "bash: Invalid option" or "sh: Invalid option"
I'm using sudo from bash to execute an arbitrary wild command as a specific user.
This works perfectly in general cases:
sudo --login --user=maria -- "$COMMAND"
For example, this calls the ...
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give <user> the same permissions as root using sudo [duplicate]
To do this, I seem to have two options:
add (user) to the sudo Group:
# usermod -aG sudo <user>
add (user) to /etc/sudoers
# visudo /etc/sudoers
.........
<user> ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
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How to let root use sudoedit as if it was a user?
I'm writing a wrapper for myself around vim that detects when the user's trying to edit a file that doesn't belong to them, and suggests sudoedit or visudo instead. I want to use sudoedit rather than ...
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Why would sudo complain about DNS name resolution? [duplicate]
I'm running on Ubuntu 22 Linux. When I try to manually fix my /etc/resolv.conf file using
sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf
# or
sudo cp $HOME/tmp/working-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
The command appears to ...
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sudo visudo in a Dockerfile with CentOS base image
I am creating a Dockerfile using the centos:7 base image. I need to edit the file at etc/sudoers and append NOPASSWD privileges to it for a new user and some groups.
I have looked up in forums that ...
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Validating Changes to pam.d (like visudo)
I'm working on an Ansible task for setting fingerprint sudo usage in MacOS. This is done through a custom rule in /etc/pam.d/sudo_local.
Is there a method to pre-validate edits to PAM for safer ...
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passthru background process sudo multiple commands
Have problem running the command in background. Below is configuration of code.
1] Using php passthru running a command as a different user than current
2] The command has multiple commands to run ...
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