sudo - Execute a command with superuser privileges.
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Prevent users from killing processes that they own
I have started some processes (window based) from user's .bashrc file. I want to prevent users from killing those processes. Is there a way to transfer the process to superuser so that a normal user ...
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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 ...
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automate login as sudo and su
I know the security risks, but I am performing this experiment/excercise on an old, seldom used *nix machine I have laying around the house. So doing this excerise will not bring any security risk to ...
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how to access homedir by root user
I want to access root user's home directory /root/. However following commands dont lead me to the root directory.
sudo -s
cd ~
It leads to the home dir of regular user. How to access /root ...
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Allow paswordless user to change to another passwordless user
I have two users dev and tomcat neither of them have a password.
How can I allow dev 1 do su - tomcat without having him having to enter any credentials?
1 connects with ssh keyfile
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Why is `sudo pkill -HUP -f “nginx: master process”` returning code 129 and no output
I'm trying to trigger a reload of the Nginx master process by using pkill and sudo.
The server reloads fine, but I was just curious if anyone knows why the command sudo pkill -HUP -f "nginx: master ...
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Keep kerberos ticket across sudo invocation
On a regular linux machine, when I use sudo -s as a normal user, I become root but HOME still points to ~user, so every admin has his own environment etc. (this is without env_reset or always_set_home ...
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How to restrict to run commands in specific directory through SUDOERS?
I can run chown and chmod commands by sudo system-wide, but want to run these commands in only /var/www/html directory.
How can restrict commands to run only in specified directory by sudo ...
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Trying to setup sudo user
I'm trying to setup sudo with no password but still I get prompted for password.
I'm using Ubuntu, here is the relevant line from the sudoers configuration file :
gandalf ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ...
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How to solve sudo: unable to execute /bin/ls: Argument list too long
When I run this command from php
sudo -u db2inst1 ls -t /var/lib/edumate/bdrs/*/*/daily/*NODE* | sort -r
I receive sudo: unable to execute /bin/ls: Argument list too long
ls lists all daily backup ...
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1answer
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Allowing a user to use sudo without a password
On a sandbox VM environment, I have a setup of Ubuntu Linux which is firewalled and cannot be accessed from outside the local system. Therefore, on that VM, I'd like to give the administrative user ...
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How to run this in sudo?
I have this line that I execute from php
sudo -u db2inst1 -s -- "/opt/ibm/db2/current/bin/db2 connect to PLC; /opt/ibm/db2/current/bin/db2 \"update EDU.contact set MOBILE_PHONE = '123'\""
it works ...
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SFTP and sudo using Windows client?
I want to download files from a linux system using a windows client. While there are many SFTP clients I am having the problem, that I need to access files where I need to be root. On the linux system ...
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SSH + Sudo + Expect in Bash script: Run command with sudo in remote machine
I am trying to automate the deploy of some .deb packages with an script. I want to execute sudo dpkg -i $myDeb.deb in a list of remote machines I can access with ssh.
I've tried to automate the ...
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Kubuntu - GUI context menu sudo/root
A couple of years ago I found something in a package manager that added a context menu item that allowed me to open files and save them normally without being harassed about file permissions. Can ...
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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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Is there a shorter way to change username, home directory and move files at the same time
I wanted to use and have tried
sudo usermod durrantm_test -mdl durrantm_test2
but I get
Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN
...
However
sudo usermod durrantm_test -l durrantm_test2 -md ...
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executing if-statement from command prompt
In bash I can do the following:
if [ -f /tmp/test.txt ]; then echo "true"; fi
However, if I add sudo in front, it doesn't work anymore:
sudo if [ -f /tmp/test.txt ]; then echo "true"; fi
-bash: ...
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Segmentation fault while doing `sudo su -`
I am getting a segmentation fault error while doing sudo su - or sudo su - username in Linux Server (RHEL 4.7).
Can any one help me resolve this issue? Linux server (RHEL 4.7) is a LDAP client.
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Allow non-admin users to install packages via apt or rpm?
Is it possible to allow non-root users to install packages system-wide using apt or rpm?
The place where I work currently has an out of date setup on the linux boxes, and admins are sick of having to ...
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sudo cannot open /etc/sudoers
sudo does not work.
I have installed Arch Linux onto a USB key formatted with BTRFS.
The output of sudo is:
$ sudo
sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
sudo: no valid sudoers sources ...
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Where can I find documentation about the “sudo !!” command
I just learned that Linux has a sudo !! command which literally applies sudo to the last entered command. I had never heard about it.
Is that a common control? Where can I find documentation about ...
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Is chmod behavior wrong for symlinks?
Recently we had a problem on a Red Hat Linux box with many users: the /usr/bin/sudo binary has lost its sticky bit. Work was blocked until root user fix it (we need sudo for deploying and testing).
...
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I accidentally deleted the sudoers file on Mac OS X; is there any way to recover it?
I accidentalley deleted the sudoers file on Mac OS X; is there any way to recover it?
And once you've recovered it, how do you set it to mode 0440?
I presume not but I am desperate to get it back!
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Can a linux user change their password without knowing the current password?
I'm setting up a few ubuntu boxes, and using opscode's chef as a configuration tool. It would be fairly easy to install public keys for each user on each of these servers, and disable password ...
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Gnome update-notifier doesn't show updates when user not in sudo group (Debian Squeeze)
Gnome desktop notifications of new updates is not working on my system. I noticed that the notifications stopped working when I removed my desktop user from the sudo group (I prefer to have a separate ...
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How does sudo remember you already entered root's password?
When using sudo on Linux, it asks for root password, but only the first time you run it. If you run another sudo command, it remember you already entered the password previously and doesn't ask for ...
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exclude commands from user's sudo permissions
Consider the following line in a /etc/sudoers file:
username ALL=(ALL) ALL, !/usr/bin/passwd
as far as I know, this allows user username to use sudo, unless he not uses /usr/bin/passwd. But ...
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How to configure sudoers to allow running sudo command under other group and user name?
How to configure sudoers to prevent having the Sorry, user ****** is not allowed to execute error message.
Background
For the purpose of testing how a python script under a less privileged user and ...
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su vs sudo -s vs sudo bash
What is the difference between the following commands:
su
sudo -s
sudo bash
I know for su I need to know the root password, and for sudo I have to be in the sudoers file, but once executed what is ...
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How to enable `sudo` with custom functions?
Recently I learned you can enable sudo for custom aliases as follows:
alias sudo='sudo ' # note: the space is required!
The reason this works is the following:
If the last character of the ...
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permission reporting on sudoers
I'm looking for a good, consistent and easy way to do a report of sudoers permissions for every user and group on the system. For users, I want the report to include permissions granted via group ...
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Is there a difference between sudo su - root and sudo -u root -H /bin/bash?
Like title says, is there a difference between these two commands :
sudo su - root
sudo -u root -H /bin/bash
I'm using GNU/Linux, if that makes a difference.
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tail program output to file in Linux
I know we can use below format to redirect the screen output to a file:
$ your_program > /tmp/output.txt
However when I used below command, it says "-bash: /home/user/errors.txt: Permission ...
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zsh wants to correct vim to .vim
I'm using zsh on Gentoo x64, and when I type sudo vim /path/to/file from my home folder, zsh asks:
zsh: correct 'vim' to '.vim' [nyae]?
I want to run vim not my .vim folder. How do I fix this?
...
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Problem with vim when logged in as root
When I login as root or edit a file by sudo mode all of the options in my /etc/vimrc are not working (e.g. highlight line-number etc.)
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switching from user to root and revers (freebsd)
i want to make some modificaciones with root and then with my user, in fact i want to install sudo and he give me the error in the first step:
cd /usr/ports/security/sudo
make install clean
...
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start apache script
I've got Apache installed on my local Linux (sabayon) OS, just for programming testing.
What I want is a script so that the server starts right away when I want it.
This is the code:
#!/bin/bash
# ...
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Run sudo as another non-root user and save in this user's home directory
I added a new group: ircuser and a new user: ircuser
In visudo I placed this line:
myuser localhost=(ircuser) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/irssi
Created ircuser directory, where config files, caches, etc ...
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Why `which tmux` and `sudo which tmux` return 2 different values?
ssh bobby@tony:~$ which tmux
/usr/bin/tmux
ssh bobby@tony:~$ sudo which tmux ...
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how to set the sftp -s subsystem option in a configuration file
The sftp command supports a subsystem option (-s) which allows the remote user to select the remote sftp-server executable, and optionally upgrade to sudo in the process like so;
sftp -s ...
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how can I give a normal user write access to a network interface?
I have a program that reads and writes packets to/from network interfaces, and normally I would add myself in the sudoers file and run the program like this:
sudo ./bridge
But now I need multiple ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu 11.10 Server: create user, home directory, sudo privileges: command line only
I have a rackspace server and I'm having problems with configuration. I need to lock it down and throw away the key, because right now I can only login with root to do anything substantial. I also am ...
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ulimit PICKLE: “Operation not permitted” and “Command not found”
I'm trying to increase the maximum number of open files for the current user
> ulimit -n
1024
I attempt to increase and fail as follows
> ulimit -n 4096
bash: ulimit: open files: cannot ...
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Mint 12: synaptic package manager error
Yesterday I had the same issue, I solved it by running
sudo synaptic
But today I don't know what's happening, if I run gksu synaptic or gksudo synaptic they don't do anything.
If I go to root and ...
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permission denied when redirecting sudo sed output [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on
I'm trying to install drupal according to the instructions given in this tutorial:
...
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How does Bash path completion work with sudo?
Tab path completion does not work (at least on Ubuntu and AFAIK Arch) with
sudo mount <whatever>
The iso file I am trying to mount is not in /etc/fstab. If I just type
mount <whatever>
...
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1answer
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Software installation with GUI package installer using sudo permission
I have the sudo permission, and I can install any software using the CLI.
But I want to know that whether sudo works with package installers in GUI mode.
For example I have a .chm file and I want to ...
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Update manager updated without prompting for a password
As far as I'm aware, I'm supposed to be prompted for a password before anything installs, but just now, I told update manager to install updates, and it proceeded to installing them without prompting ...
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Prompt for sudo password and programmatically elevate privilege in bash script?
I'm currently working on a bash script that installs and sets up various programs on a stock Linux system (currently, Ubuntu). Because it installs programs and copies a number of files to various ...
