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I am in need of adding root privileges to a bash script which uses sudo; so that whenever we run the script from the terminal; irrespective of the fact that the user is root or not it should not prompt for password. Please help! Doing Run Bash Script as Root did not help.

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What is the exact command that you have written inside your script? – IgnitE Oct 30 '12 at 18:29
sudo convert outfile.jpeg sabily.png – MKJ Oct 31 '12 at 4:25

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The best solution would be use visudo (this tool was made for that and will avoid the exposition of root password), I suggest you to dig what are going wrong with that.

As a workaround, you can run this: 

echo <password> | sudo -S some-script

(start the command with a space so it won't be saved in bash history).

Regards.

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Keeping in mind that by doing this you are allowing anyone to run it I believe you need to chmod it by giving it appropriate permission, 0755 should do it.

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does not work! :( – MKJ Oct 31 '12 at 18:52
@Pascal - While that does allow anyone to execute the script it doesn't elevate the privileges to run as root. – Argusvision Nov 3 '12 at 2:08

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