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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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Two users (admin + non-admin) what is the right usage of su/sudo?
I have two users on a macos. U1 is a non-admin user and U2 is a admin user.
I cannot add U1 to the sudoers. Is there a way to use U2 to act as if it was U1 issuing sudo <command>?
My thinking:
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Why does htop on Mac OS X require root privileges to see data for all processes, but on Linux it runs without root
I use htop all the time when I'm working on Linux system. I've installed htop-osx through Homebrew on my Mac, but in order to see all data for all processes, the formula tells me that I need to run ...
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Why does sudo -n on Mac OS X always return 0?
It looks like sudo -n on Mac OS X (10.10.3) always returns 0 as a return code.
So something like this will always show 0, regardless of whether the user has authenticated with his password first:
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Shebangs do not like sudo in OSX
Using sudo in the shebang seems completely broken. The following code:
#!/usr/bin/sudo /bin/bash
echo "this should work"
works fine on Ubuntu, but on OSX gives me:
sudo: effective uid is not 0, is /...
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Sudo su vs su linux
If I enter in the password to su when prompted, it doesnt work while sudo su does. Also, when a command is executed using sudo (command), does sudo automatically execute it by root by default (since ...
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i want alice to run any command as root, but can not run commands as any other user
Say I have 2 users - 'alice' and 'bob' and want to allow 'alice' to run any command as root, but not run commands as 'bob' or any other user, am I able to do this, and if so how ?
consider this ...
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Adding a line into the hosts file, getting permission denied when using sudo - Mac
I'm trying to add a line into the hosts file on my Mac by executing a one line command on the terminal.
I thought this would be easy using sudo, but it returns "permission denied" when I try to add &...
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How can I make sudo never ask for a password with a certain argument, but always ask for a password with another argument?
For example, I want to allow sudo shutdown -c to always be run without entering a password, but sudo shutdown without -c to always require a password (even if I've authenticated to sudo previously).
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