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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sudo with password in one command line?
On busy days, I'd like to run
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install && halt
on the night and go to bed, hoping the application would automatically be installed. But ...
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How to change user in WinSCP?
I'm using WinSCP to access Unix computers. How can I change user after I have logged into a Unix server using WinSCP?
E.g. I have personal account in Unix computer A. I can log into this computer ...
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How do I make sudo preserve my environment variables?
Using sudo 1.7.4p4 on Solaris 5.10 and sudo 1.6.7p5 on RHEL4 u6 I can't see how to preserve my environment variables, for instance $PYTHONPATH. I've added this line to sudoers, but it doesn't make any ...
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how do I run a sudo command and load the environment variables of current logged on user?
I need to run an ssh sudo command.
command is as follows:
ssh -i keyfile [email protected] 'sh -v /opt/dir/script'
the script contains the following:
sudo -E node some.js
the reason I use the -E ...
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How to append to a file as sudo?
I want to do:
echo "something" >> /etc/config_file
But, since only the root user has write permission to this file, I can't do that. But the following also doesn't work.
sudo echo "something" ...
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How to set path for sudo commands
If I issue
sudo my-command
how does Linux look for that my-command?
The my-command is in my PATH. I can invoke it without any problem. However, when I invoke it with sudo, I'll get command not found.
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command not found when using sudo
There are a few question on the site that seem related to my problem but I could not find a solution in any of them.
My operating system is Ubuntu 12.04. I have mvn installed in /tools/noarch/apache-...
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How to prevent sudo users from running specific commands?
I have a very sensitive network setup and I really dont want to mess up with it. My network consists a bunch of users who are with sudo privilege.
I want to stop them from running
service ...
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How to provide password directly to the sudo su -<someuser> in shell scripting
I got a requirement to automate in shell script for sudo su -<someuser> which asks for password.
How to provide password directly to the sudo su - in shell scripting for IBM AIX servers.
I have ...
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scp to remote server with sudo
I have a file on server A (which is behind a NAT so not directly addressable). The file needs to be copied to server B in a directory restricted to root. I have an account on server B with sudo ...
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Sudo vs root; any actual differences?
I'm working with a support member for a product, and he insists that I need to be root to install a series of patches, and that sudo won't work; he doesn't provide a reason but seems very firm in his ...
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sudo unable to write to /etc/profile [duplicate]
I am following the instructions on this site for Grails installation, but am not able to write to /etc/profile like it instructs.
sudo echo ‘JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun’ >> /etc/profile
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How I can make sudo session an hour and not few minutes in Ubuntu 10.04?
How I can make sudo Ubuntu 10.04 session an hour and not few minutes?
Now I have to write my password for sudo commands every few minutes.
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Should I use sudo in a script or sudo an entire script?
I run a small group of macOS machines for students (say 20) and they all need to be setup with things like homebrew and other packages and applications. I'm writing a bash script to automatically ...
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Sudoers NOPASSWD for single executable but allowing others
Operating System: Arch Linux
Linux version: 4.16.11
Sudo version: 1.8.23
What I need:
be able to execute any executable with a sudo with a password prompt
be able to execute one executable, /home/...
