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TAB autocomplete on sudo sh
When I say sudo sh, TAB stops working as autocomplete signal on my Debian.
How can I enable TAB key autocomplete after I say sudo sh ?
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Why doesn't “sudo su” in a shell script run the rest of the script as root?
A sample script can be as below:
#!/bin/bash
sudo su
ls /root
When using ./test.sh as the normal user, instead run ls as super user and exit, it switches to root; and when I logout, it executes ls ...
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1answer
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Cannot enter in centOS with any user
I am using cent OS Operating system without GNOME.
In the starting, it asks
localhost login:
Password:
It has one user named service under group name service whose password is also service.
I ...
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1answer
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run 'service php5-fpm restart' without using sudo
I am integrating my cakephp projects using jenkins.
Right now, I am exploring the use of Phing. There is one task where I need to run
service php5-fpm restart
So far I tried to do this manually. ...
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1answer
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Can I get correct $PATH when executing sudo -u db2inst -sh “db2”?
I need to run sudo -u db2inst1 sh -c "db2 connect to db; db2 set schema Edumate; db2 \"select * from edumate_settings\"" but I don't want to specify absolute path to db2
If I run sudo -u db2inst1 sh ...
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2answers
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Execute shell script from php, as root user?
Need to execute the following line from PHP:
$res = shell_exec('sudo sh /home/nicklas/cronjobs/make_account.sh
username password');
The problem is nothing happens on execution. If i try to ...
3
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1answer
367 views
Stay at same working directory when changing to sudo
When working on the command line, I often change to sudo using sudo -i. However, my working directory changes automatically to /root. I never want to go there; I want to stay where I was! How can I ...
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1answer
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pass 1 environment variable using sudo
Is this a correct way for passing an environment variable in sudo ?
sudo -u www-data -b env FOOBAR="foobar" /home/user/folder/daemon
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2answers
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Run in root shell from within a user bash script
I have a script that , among other things, needs to do some stuff as root, like creating a mount folder.
I tried:
echo "Linux user password is needed in order to ..."
sudo -s
# also tried:
# sudo su
...
3
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3answers
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Detach a daemon using sudo?
I noticed that sudo continues to run after executing any of the following lines. Is there any way to detach the daemon completely so sudo does not continue running ?
sudo -u user daemon &
sudo -u ...
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2answers
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Should I be using 'sudo' in scripts that I write?
I'm setting up a new machine (well actually, an Ubuntu VM) and am trying to write a script to setup a few common things that I use when doing this (Git, curl, vim + janus).
So my script looks a bit ...
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2answers
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Write to a file without redirection?
I am writing a regular compiled application that needs to create a special file and write a magic cookie into it. I can’t write the file directly from the application, the system security model ...
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3answers
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How do I use redirection with sudo [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on
Yeah I could (and probably will) just escalate to root, but I'd like to know why this doesn't work?
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4answers
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Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on
When you attempt to modify a file without having write permissions on it, you get an error:
> touch /tmp/foo && sudo chown root /tmp/foo
> echo test > /tmp/foo
zsh: permission ...
