Questions tagged [sudo]
sudo - Execute a command with superuser privileges.
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Why I can not drop sudo root privileges?
I am debugging a program and not quite sure why I can not drop privileges.
I have root permissions via sudo and I can call setgid/setuid, but the operation [is] is not supported.
Basic code to ...
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Cannot Install anything on Kali Linux 2018 [duplicate]
root@Kali:~# echo -e "deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib\ndeb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list
root@Kali:~# ...
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Sudoers: can't run two command lists where the second has a glob * and denies the first
What I want is:
to be able to run /sbin/print/managequeue.sh -p app1 --view as
another user without asking for a password.
to be able to run /sbin/print/managequeue.sh -p app1 --cancel
(or --delete, ...
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Weird problem with CUDA installation
I am experiencing a rather unusual problem with my CUDA installation on Linux Mint 18.3. After a clean reboot, running deviceQuery as a standard user: optirun ./deviceQuery returns FAIL, but if I do:
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Homestead run command as root
Over my Homestead configuration, I try to make my after.sh script to auto-configure xdebug so over a box update or re-creation to be able to enfroce my configuration for it without the need to redo it ...
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Setting up passwordless sudo on Linux distributions
I recently set up both Fedora 28 & Ubuntu 18.04 systems and would like to configure my primary user account on both so that I can run sudo commands without being prompted for a password.
How can ...
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sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
I run a sudo command via the python subprocess.check_output function. This used to work several month now. All or a sudden, it fails with:
sudo: PERM_ROOT: setresuid(0, -1, -1): Operation not ...
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How to run ip netns exec without password?
I'm on arch and am using a network namespace wiredlan for ethernet, using it for LAN based applications and big downloads. I run commands/apps on the netns as:
alias runonlan='sudo ip netns exec ...
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Sudo command not found after using PS1=“1” ; export PS1 [closed]
I mistakenly used PS1="1" ; export PS1. Since then I am getting error sudo command not found. I can't even install sudo using yum install sudo because it needs root privileges and the sudo command is ...
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Deleted /etc/pam.d/common
I deleted all common-* files in /etc/pam.d folder and now I am locked out. I am running Ubuntu 14.04. I did backup all these files in a folder inside pam.d but now I can't even move them. If I try, ...
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How to read a file using sudo? [closed]
As part of an lab that I am doing titled "sudo", one of the questions is, "What is the password in the secret.txt file?".
When I try cat secret.txt I get a permission denied message.
When I try sudo ...
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`listpw` Default option not working with sudo 1.8.24
I'm using sudo 1.8.24 on arch linux (just the default version that comes with the OS), and running into problems where it prompts me for my password just to list that a command is valid. Here is my /...
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How to add file to /etc/sudoers.d/ from non-root user?
I'm trying to write a script for Centos 6.8 where the user will not be root. There is no admin on the premises, so the script needs to be added to the sudoers (by adding a file to /etc/sudoers.d) by ...
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SSH port forwarding: “Privileged ports can only be forwarded by root” error
I wanted to forward my local 8080 port to the 80 port of the server I want to log in via SSH, so I did:
ssh -L 80:127.0.0.1:8080 -N -f myserver
But I get the error:
Privileged ports can only be ...
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Linux - why do the su and sudo binaries need to be set-UID root?
I am trying to find the correct reason for the stated question. My understanding is that:
sudo needs to read the /etc/sudoers file which is only readable by root, which is why it needs to be set-UID ...
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How to get Mac OS to remember previous auth. from my executable file
I'm writing a tiny unix executable file that changes my macbook's system time manually. Of course, this requires a password, and so I used the system() function to interface with the terminal and ...
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su - user Vs sudo su - user
sudo su - will elevate any user(sudoer) with root privilege.
su - anotheruser will switch to user environment of the target user, with target user privileges
What does sudo su - username mean?
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Run bash subshell with commands as other user and not return to parent shell
As part of my quest to preserve bashrc and vimrc when switching to non-root users, I plan on making some super ugly aliases to switch to other users, immediately execute some commands, and then drop ...
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How do I make any newly created file in a specific directory executable, readable and writable by default by all users
The question that I am unable to find answer for is as follows:
How do I make any newly created file in a specific directory executable, readable and writable by all users.
So I've got an NFS, one ...
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Ubuntu bash echo “$PASSWORD” | sudo -S WID=$(cat /var/lib/FILE)
/var/lib/FILE root:root 0600 (One line of text)
How can I read the /var/lib/FILE into $WID
echo "$PASSWORD" | sudo -S WID=$(cat /var/lib/FILE) not working for me.
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Why would `read -s` behaves differently than `read` if killed with `ctrl-c`?
Consider this script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "hi there $(whoami)"
[ "`whoami`" = "root" ] || {
exec sudo -u root "$0" "$@"
echo "this is never called"
}
read -s -p "enter stuff: " stuff
echo "answer:...
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Passing environment variables via sudo on solaris 10
I need to execute a command via sudo on Solaris 10, and I need to pass two environment variables to the command. This must be done in /bin/sh, not bash, not ksh.
This is possible on Linux, serveral ...
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“ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL” was auto added in my /etc/sudoers file. Is this a Security Breach?
ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL line was auto added twice at the end of my /etc/sudoers file.
My linux suddenly stopped asking for a password every time I ran a sudo command. This made me investigate the ...
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run certain program without sudo but with password prompt
I want to be able to run visudo without sudo (because visudo obviously wants to be used as root), but I want it to prompt for my password (for security reason). Is there any way to do this? Something ...
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LS_COLORS how persist after sudo su
I have a username created on my machine and the username is added to sudoers file to have root access.
My .bashrc file also contains a script which is saying to change the colors for the PS1 and the ...
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Why is there a different result when running as user1 and su - user1 -c “command”?
When running as user1 in the same directory (/home/user1/WWW)
[user1@server1 WWW (master)]# touch c
Creates the file c inside the directory.
[root@server1 WWW (master) ACCEPTATIE SERVER]# su - ...
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Know password, but can't SU or run commands with sudo [closed]
This issue popped up about a week ago, not sure what caused it. Previously the environment had been working as expected. Using a VM hosted on VMWare tools, uname -a returns roughly the following.
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How to run a command as apache
I want to edit my server files as a user in the apache group So, I need to chmod all files to 0775 as user apache. But, I am unable to su apache. I don't know the password for it, and entering empty ...
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Want to preserve bashrc and vimrc when switching to non-root users
I'm on a multi-user system. I have sudo b/c I'm responsible I guess. Sometimes, I want to switch to another user to help them do something, but I have a tricked-out bashrc/vimrc and I'd like to keep ...
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tighten security on /etc/sudoers execution grants
I have been adding lines similar to this to a file in /etc/sudoers.d/:
%mygroupname ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/mount, /sbin/umount
However, I believe that can be improved upon. For example, I am ...
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Having trouble changing character set in terminal
The GNU/Linux terminal doesn't display Swedish characters (sv_SE.UTF-8). I've googled, and found several sources with various solutions.
To summarize the error, no matter what guide I follow, is ...
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Non-interactively change user in bash
I want to create a new user, add it to the sudo group and then change to that user not-interactively (i.e. without entering the password via stdin) in a test scenario on a vm.
I tried this, but this ...
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Sudo tickets and subsequent non-sudo sibling process
Imagine that locally on my system sudo is configured with a timeout, so that once I authenticate after running sudo once in some terminal, I don't need to re-authenticate for another 10 minutes.
Does ...
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sudo: ./<SomeBinary>: command not found when run from mounted folder [closed]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12996397/command-not-found-when-using-sudo is exactly what I am looking for but none of the answers worked for me. I am using Arch Linux. I am trying to run a ...
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centos - background processes
I have a machine where running tcpdump on wifi interface requires sudo privleges.
So if I run a background job like,
sudo tcpdump -i wlp8s0 'port 80' &
(I know its meaningless to do it as I am ...
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How can *command* work, but *sudo command* not work? [duplicate]
When I type the command
pip
it works fine (gives me a help page). But when I type the command
sudo pip
it gives me the response
sudo: pip: command not found
whereas for example 'sudo python' ...
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Username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported - WHERE/HOW? [duplicate]
When a user not in sudoers tries to elevate privileges to root (in Ubuntu 18.04 for example) the OS displays this alert: "Username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported".
Now, ...
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/etc/sudoers: why is there an entry for root?
We are distributing a standard sudoers file to our Linux servers.
From an historical point of view the line ..
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
has been removed or never added. The package default ...
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sudo does not recognize new group
Why won't sudo recognize my group, in a fresh login after using groupadd?
Our DigitalOcean CentOS comes with a borked sudo implementation. It's the following script, note well line #2:
$ nl $(which ...
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Mistyped command: sudo nano / -name “supervisor”
Instead of using sudo find / -name "supervisor" I ran sudo nano / -name "supervisor" by mistake, which looked like it opened a blank nano file before I hit CRTL-X...
$ sudo nano / -name "supervisor"
...
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CentOS 7 - No packages marked for update
With yum update I'm not able to update packages. I have tried every possible solution which is provided like yum clean, yum repolist, etc but none of this seems to solve this problem.
sudo yum update
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sudo prompt won't let me submit my sudo password
When I ssh into my CentOS 7 machine and try to use sudo, I'm unable to submit my password.
Example prompt:
$ sudo ls
[sudo] password for edwardloveall:
Then I type my password, hit Enter, and ...
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execute command with sudo and execute Bash script with sudo
I was always thinking that to execute commands with sudo and to execute bash script with sudo were the same. But today I find that they are different. Here is what I've tested:
me@my_machine:~$ sudo ...
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Which is not searching full $PATH
If I run sudo which abc I would expect it to search the superusers $PATH for the program 'abc', but it looks like it only searches a subset.
I can see this by running sudo echo $PATH and comparing ...
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Unable to go inside directory on Debian 9
I am logged in as sudo user on Debian 9. When I do ls then it shows me there is a directory called vars
If I do cd /vars then I get error bash: cd: /vars: No such file or directory
If I do sudo ...
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When does it start to count the time limit set for password caching in `sudo`?
If I run a time-consuming command with sudo , after it finishes running, if I run another command with sudo, it seems that I don't need to type in my password again. It seems the password that I typed ...
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sudo and su commands do not work, after executing sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh
So, I've been trying to install zsh. It didn't work properly, after terminal restart, so I decided to change the shell again by typing chsh -s /bin/zsh, once again, but accidentally preceded that with ...
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Allow regular user to use mount without SUDO or FSTAB
Our desktop workstations are linux.
Each user uses Active Directory to authenticate. Mount does not automatically use the users PAM credentials to authenticate against a remote mount point - you must ...
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change the executable JAR file permissions accordingly:
I've created a user using sudo useradd -m peris, then I want to change an executable JAR file permissions, but I got an error:
$ sudo chmod 500 menu-prices-update-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
[sudo] password ...
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Is there a workaround the sudo permission? [closed]
I just got assigned the task to install and compare two software packages for linux but I don't have sudo permissions to do so. Is there a work around it? Is this even possible?
Another question ...
