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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: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
On Amazon Workspaces I ran sudo chmod -R 777 /etc in order to create a file to install Docker but now after every command with sudo I run into this error
sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable
sudo: /...
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Why can't I use the sudo command with this user?
I am not a system engineer (I am more a software developer). I have the following problem trying to deploy an application on a Linux Centos system.
As the first operation, I need to install Java and ...
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How do I release a blocked sudo user
I use a centos instance for a production system. I do not know how But the root password was enabled or centos user was removed from sudoers. Before I was able to run sudo commands or even run sudo su ...
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Sudo not working on CentOS 7
so my school had me try to disable root login by editing /etc/passwd file, root:x:0:0:root:/root:/sbin/nologin
the plan is to have me use sudo commands to then revert this change. but since doing ...
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windows network drive linux mount requires sudo after mounted
I am able to mount a drive to the linux box using sudo.
sudo mount \
-t cifs \
-o 'vers=3.0,username=myuser,domain=mydomain' \
'//windows-ip/share-folder' ~/testmount/
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uninstalling vim-minimal also uninstalls sudo in Centos 7.4
Setting up a new CentOS 7.4 machine. I installed vim using sudo yum install vim, and then I uninstalled vim-minimal with sudo yum remove vim-minimal. Now sudo has been uninstalled:
$ sudo
-bash: /...
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CentOS7 change in visudo not accepted
This is my sudoers file. I am accessing it using sudo visudo. I have added this new user 'user' then logout/login back to the system but this user still need a password to run sudo commands.
## Next ...
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Linux - create screen as another user
I'm trying to create a new screen on my server (CentOS 5.11), but instead of starting it with my user, I would prefer to use another user with restricted permissions, just to be on the safe side.
So, ...
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Whitelisting commands a user can use with sudo
I've been attempting to set up a whitelist of commands a user can run on my system. The server I'm using is running CentOS 7. What is the syntax that should be used to only allow a certain group of ...
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Make a group be able to run shutdown command without entering a password (CentOS)
I used the command visudo -f /etc/sudoers to edit the sudoers file.
How do I make a group be able to run the shutdown command without supplying password?
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Add a sudoer non-interactively from command line
(On Centos through Docker)
I know that I can add a sudoer using visudo. Is there a way to add a user to the sudoer list straight from the command line, so I don't have to do it interactively?
I'm ...
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Broken sudo on amazon web services ec2 linux centOS
So I had no idea of the dangers of messing with the /etc/sudoers file, and was just trying to make a simple change in there. However, I seem to have put something with incorrect syntax in there, ...
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"Wrapper" ssh script freezes when executing remote command
I am running OSX Mountain Lion and the remote server is CentOS 6. I have several scripts on my local machine that I want to run on the remote server and to that end, I thought to write one script that ...
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How can I allow user A to run commands as user B if I don't have access to root?
CentOS 5.6
There are two users; user A and user B. I have permissions for both and can log in as either.
I would like to be able to log in as user B, and somehow run commands as user A without ...
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