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sudo passwordless in ssh session not working
In RHEL7, I have the same local users on all machines within my cloud tenancy. That local user is configured in sudoers to be able to:
run all commands,
run sudo commands without password
EDIT: ssh ...
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Permission denied when running a mv command as user after entering into sudoers file
I have a user which needs to move a file to a dated folder.
I have an entry into the sudoers file as follows:
backupuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/mv /var/lib/pgsql/base_backup/*.tar.gz /var/lib/...
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sudo Acting Differently on Two Machines - same account
RHEL 8.8 on VMWare (eSXI) on two different VM's (server01 and server02)
So we have an administrative account in our AD "pfsadmin" used for various purposes including stopping and starting ...
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running systemctl via ssh without asking for password [closed]
I want to run ssh without asking for a password and invoke systemctl without a password I tried doing the following:
ssh -t <user>@<host> "echo <password> | sudo -S systemctl ...
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Red hat visudo read logs for regular user
It is necessary to allow reading logs /var/log/.* by a regular user. I do according to the documentation. This manual
mkdir -p /etc/sudoers.d/
visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/mikelogger
inside visudo
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How do I remove reboot, halt and shutdown privileges using visudo?
I am trying to take reboot privileges away from the user Rick. I have tried both ! and NOEXEC. Is there another way to do this?
Rick ALL = (ALL) !/sbin/reboot
Rick ALL = NOEXEC: /sbin/reboot
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ldconfig --> sudo: you do not exist in the passwd database
Ok, I made a mistake and I'm struggling to fix it:
I was looking for a libGL.so to link a project, and found it in a (conan-related) package that is mounted during build time. The default system /usr/...
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Running "su command" as another user
I have a user user1 which is part of wheel group and has all the root privileges .
user1 is able to change password for user2 using the below command
(My understanding is that here passwd is run as ...
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Yum as root only works if I use the sudo command
This is for RHEL 7.8...
I support a VM for a customer where another third-party uses the root account to update packages. When they use yum as root, they receive a timeout, like this (note: this is ...
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How to run a systemctl command without sudo?
Background:
My developers are installing an informatica product in a RHEL8.3 server. The services are running using a user called infa_admin, and this user is already in the wheel group. This user is ...
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sudoers is world writable
I wanted to modify the sudoers file, and by mistake, to be able to open it, changed the permissions from 440 to 777. Now when wanting to open it, it no longer allows me, and the error that comes out ...
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Run wall command as another user RHEL8
How do I send a wall message as root (or any other user) and it not identify the original user?
Looking at the below I would have expected wall to display message from root but it still shows admin1, ...
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system locale are setting improperly on Redhat
On Redhat 7.9 (fresh installation) many command returns warning like on example:
# yum repolist
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
When check locale it returns:
# locale
locale: Cannot set ...
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How to allow only a specific script to run as root, using a non-root user account, without sudo access to everything?
I have a bash file that the web developer would need to run once in a while, which contains commands to reset some file permissions. These commands have to be run under the root security context. I ...
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PATH broken when trying to add directory permanently for all users [duplicate]
What specific changes need to be made to the following in order to safely add the /home/myapp-host/bin directory location to the $PATH permanently for all users on Amazon Linux 2, which is based on ...
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