Questions tagged [sudo]
sudo - Execute a command with superuser privileges.
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Add “domain admins” group in sudo users [duplicate]
I want to give access domain admins group to sudoers access.
I have come across with many commands but nun of works for me.
fname.lname ALL=(ALL) ALL
With this command i can give access to a ...
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Run sudo from non admin account in one command line [on hold]
I'm trying to run a sudo command in a non admin account (An account with no sudo privileges). So far I tried with su, to change to the adm account, but it requires a password after. When I do echo ...
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How to prevent automated message being printed every time I sudo, without changing global settings?
At my office whenever I log into a linux server I get a standard message which basically amounts to "You consent to us monitoring you if you use this machine". This has been required part of every ...
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Given that root has all privileges, why is root ALL=(ALL) ALL in /etc/sudoers? [duplicate]
I looked at this question:
Trying to understand the difference between “modernNeo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL” and “modernNeo ALL=(ALL) ALL” in the sudoers file
I still have a question. Since the "root" user ...
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Why is /etc/sudoers not world-readable?
I'm struggling to think what security risks there could be to knowing who is allowed to use sudo.
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Recovering from chown -R <user> /usr/bin [duplicate]
I ran chown -R <user> /usr/bin in arch thinking I could easily fix it if anything went wrong. Unfortunately, that has proven to be incorrect.
As a result of this, startx won't run i3 ...
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Raising permissions of account “dummy” when executing command from “root” as “dummy”?
Context:
While trying to execute command su a -c task as user dummy when being logged (with sudo su in as root on Ubuntu 16.04, I receive the following error message:
root@DESKTOP-344ab:/home/dummy#...
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Keep access to a file after sudo
user1 runs sudo -u user2 SomeCommand. I want SomeCommand to be able to access the files of user1 (or just a specific directory or even a single file, if that's easier), without giving access to user2 (...
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Sudo installation problems
I just downloaded Debian 9.6.0 from osboxes to run it on a VM.
However, I ran into a few problems.
I can't sudo. Ok, you have to install it first. No problems... I thought. Turns out, there are a few ...
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Connecting to SSH authentication agent when running commands with sudo
I use etckeeper to keep my various OS configurations under version control. Until now, I was content to just use a local Git repository to keep track of changes but it occurred to me that I wasn’t ...
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How can you write to a file from the command line without using shell output redirection? [duplicate]
I'm trying to:
sudo echo "$USER: my message" > /dev/kmsg
to write a message to the dmesg log. This causes a 'permission denied' error, because it is redirecting the output of 'sudo' (while no ...
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Linux Mint. How to set the terminal password to be invisible?
I change to Linux Mint about 2 days ago. And I feel uncomfortable when I put the 'sudo password', because I used to see nothing and now I saw "*****".
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Best way to setup sudo authentication on servers that don't use a password?
With sudo, you can either set it to ask for a password or not ask for a password.
Historically, everything was password-protected, which is the model that I am used to. However, encryption seems to ...
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Trying to understand the difference between “modernNeo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL” and “modernNeo ALL=(ALL) ALL” in the sudoers file
In the sudoers file, you can have either of the following lines
modernNeo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
modernNeo ALL=(ALL) ALL
I looked at the following answers on here to understand this
https://askubuntu....
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What is logging in?
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/489913/674
Logging in is a user-space construct; the kernel doesn’t care about that.
There are multiple examples of this; for example, cron jobs can run ...
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SSH connection getting closed automatically after a sudo command
I have two servers running the same version of RedHat 6.4, however one of them behaves differently when I run remote sudo commands through SSH on it. On server1, the connection is automatically closed ...
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what is the difference between sudo -s and sudo -i? [duplicate]
From
https://stackoverflow.com/posts/53809141
What is the difference between sudo -s and sudo -i?
In the book "A practical guide to linux commands, editors and shell programming" by Mark G. Sobell, ...
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Using service account to copy the apps
Currently we are having Git repository which is configured with srvapps (service account).I can sudo to the Git server using this account (username - srvapps and password - my login password).
My ...
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sudo emacs doesn't read my elpa packages
Here is my problem on a server running CentOS 7 with emacs 24.3.1.:
When I run sudo emacs <protected_file> on a file that I don't have write permissions, emacs doesn't read my .emacs file, nor ...
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using sudo with piped command on Ubuntu server
If I need to use the following backup command on an Ubuntu server with sudo, how do I do so? Do I need sudo at two places?
tar cf - directory | 7za a -si directory.tar.7z
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How to restrict access to terminal
I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian graphical desktop which I have locked down to restrict the user to a limited number of applications. Everything has been removed from the menu except these ...
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Installing headless chrome without sudo
I am using Dreamhost VPS which doesn't provide sudo capability. Dreamhost runs on Ubuntu.
My final goal is to be able to use Ruby to run headless web browser. I picked Watir gem and it requires ...
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Notepadqq doesn't ask to retry as root, gksu doesn't work
I want to open config files in Notepadqq. When I try to do this normally, I get an error dialog with message "Permission denied" and options Ignore, Abort and Retry.
Supposedly if gksu is detected ...
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Gain Root Access to remote Server with sudo, su, and pkexec not working
I'm running CentOS7 on an old dell box that I repurposed as a home server. I also ssh into it from a remote location to make sure everything is running smoothly, and to do things like rsync my laptop. ...
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Accidentally moved sudoers file
I accidentally moved /etc/sudoers to Documents.
I need to move it back to /etc, but I can't since I need to be sudo to move files...
sudo mv Documents/sudoers /etc
sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers: ...
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Cutting output from sudo in a bash script
I am writing a script that is supposed to ask for user's password, do some stuff with it and eventually pass it to sudo. This is roughly how it looks:
echo "input password: "
read -s password
printf "...
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Is it possible to get the output of only sudo command?
I want to write the output of only sudo command to some file i.e. the line which I get on terminal after writing sudo i.e.
[sudo] password for user:
If I use sudo ls > file or sudo ls 2> file ...
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Allowing non root users to manage systemd service is not working
I wanted to allow specific non root users to start/stop certain systemd services in CentOS7. But there has been no luck on the steps that I have tried so far. Here is what I have tried.
I have added ...
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“sudo -s <command>” runs command in a shell, but wildcards or metacharacters not working
When using sudo -s (short for the "--shell" option), it is possible to pass "sudo" a command, in which case it will run the command in a shell started by "sudo" as the target user.
(Similarly, sudo -...
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“docker run hello-world” not working when run as root
I configured docker in Windows 10 Home to connect with docker in WSL (Windows Subsystem in Linux).
When I run sudo docker run hello-world in WSL, it gets the error message
docker: Cannot connect to ...
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How to escape wildcard in path when using sudo -u <username> command [duplicate]
I need to access a file on an NFS fileserver where root squash is turned on. I'm using bash on Arch Linux. I am using this type of command:
# sudo -u authduser ls /mounted/filesystem/path/aa.user.js
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Is it possible to apply setuid only for a specific user?
As I understand, the setuid bit means that any user who can execute a file executes it as the file's owner. Is it possible, using ACLs or something, so that only a select list of users execute the ...
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switching to another user gives an error [duplicate]
I am logged into one machine as user "john" and now if I try to switch to another user "dummy", I am getting below error. Long time back I only created this "dummy" user but forgot how I did that:
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Does sudo restrict on which users can acquire superuser privileges?
The password which sudo asks for is the invoking user's password. So a user can have superuser prilleges as long as it remembers its own password, which seem very easy for any user.
So does sudo ...
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Running an executable without sudo
I have a small function in my .zshrc. It creates a command to search for and run an executable file, that may or may not exist, in the current directory, or a parent directory somewhere up the current ...
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Why is sudo's version worth protection?
I am surprised to see
$ sudo -v
[sudo] password for t:
Why is its version worth protection?
Thanks.
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How would you put a job which requires sudo to background?
I am looking for a way of putting a job which requires sudo to background, with as little interaction as possible except maybe typing my password.
sudo requires password from terminal, while ...
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How to add a new user and disable its root login? [closed]
A sysadmin may want to add a new user that will have no root access (nor sudo).
I don't sell hosting services but I can bring this field as an example; an hosting company gives its customers the ...
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shell script: use sudo inside it vs run it with sudo?
When writing a shell script, in which some but not all commands in it need superuser privileges, shall I
add sudo to those commands which need superuser privileges, and run the shell script without ...
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Why does this script keep running after receiving SIGINT?
I learned from https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/230568/674 thatping will exit with 0 after receiving SIGINT, which allows a bash script containing a ping command to continue running instead of exiting....
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Why does sudo accept password not from stdin by default?
I learned from my earlier question What's the purpose of using `sudo -S` explicitly? that sudo accepts password not from stdin by default.
Why is that? Is it because of some security reason?
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How may I provide my password repeatedly to a script contaning a loop of sudo?
I have a script which contains
while true
sudo mycmd
sleep 10000
[ ... ] ; break
end
when I run the script in bash, I will have to provide my password once in 10000 seconds after finishing ...
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Are cron tasks in `/etc/cron.d/` files supposed to not contain `sudo`?
In /etc/cron.d/myjob, I create a cron task of running a bash script and redirect its stdout and stderr to a log file. The script contains a line of sudo running a command.
In the log file:
sudo: no ...
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How can I open a shell in the environment that cron (alternatively launchd) uses to execute commands?
I am trying to get launchd (which is macOS's alternative for cron) to run a job for me. It doesn't work, while running the commands on a bash launched with sudo does. I tried redirecting the output to ...
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VISUDO: passwordless sudo does not work for user
I've altered my /etc/sudoers file with sudo visudo as follows (showing only uncommented lines, the entire file can be found here):
$ grep -v '^#[^i]' /etc/sudoers/ | grep .
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
%wheel ...
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sudo error unable to resolve host locahost (using linuxdeploy on android device)
So I installed linuxdeploy on my phone to mess around with a debian linux. Installed debian 9 for arm64 and so far so good.
Only when I run any "sudo" command, I'm getting the following warning:
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Calling sync without root privileges
I can call sync without root privileges. Does it flush all buffers to disk? Is it the same as calling it with root privileges like sudo sync?
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sudoers - allow user to ssh as another user and run a specific command
I am writing a Bash script to manage various JBoss instances across multiple servers.
The script allows users to check the status of each instance as well as stop/start them. The script is situated ...
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sudo -su vs sudo su -
On RHEL 7.5, I created a non-root user and would like to switch from one non-root-user to another non-root-user, without password.
First tried, sudo -u user1, command syntax error
then tried, sudo ...
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How a non-root user sudo to another non-root user without password?
As root, created a new non-root user on RHEL 7.5
appuser:x:1903:1903:appuser:/home/appuser:/bin/bash
A non-root user to be able to sudo to appuser,
sudo -u appuser
without a password,
What are ...
