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How to run sudo command with no password?
How does the ubuntu user on the AWS images for Ubuntu Server 12.04 have passwordless sudo for all commands when there is no configuration for it in /etc/sudoers?
I'm using Ubuntu server 12.04 on ...
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How to allow execution without prompting for password using sudo?
I am writing a Java application where i need to do a command line execution and get a result back, but when i execute the command, it ask for sudo password. So far i tried:
$ sudo -s
$ vim /etc/...
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How to correctly insert sudo password in sudo command?
I want to log in to user2 via bash script, so my script contains:
sudo -i -u user2
Also I don't want to enter my sudo password by hands. Before I did something like this:
echo "my_sudo_password&...
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Ubuntu 16.04 - How to start xampp control panel
How can I start xampp? After the installation there was no shortcut created on the desctop, now I am unable to find it. I am using the latest XAMPP for Linux 5.6.30, 7.0.15 & 7.1.1
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Any reason to have a strong user password?
I recently decided to change my (very) strong user password to something trivial.
This was mostly to eliminate frustration with typing a long password each time I sudo or whatever.
My question is, ...
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How do I make Powertop changes permanent?
I'm on a Compaq 615 and it's fan is loud. Not much you can do about that but I'm trying to keep the CPU/GPU as cool as possible. This is what Powertop has to say:
If I change all of them to "good", ...
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How to run .desktop icon from sudo
I have created a desktop icon for the gddccontrol, but to run it I need to execute it from sudo. Is there a way to run a command from the desktop icon like,
sudo -pPASSWORD gddccontrol
so it won't ...
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tcpdump permissions problem
Am having trouble running tcpdump. I must run tcpdump with non-root user.
Searched the web for my problem and figured out I should:
sudo setcap cap_net_admin=eip /usr/sbin/tcpdump
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How to run a file with sudo without a password? [duplicate]
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How to run an application using sudo without a password?
I've made a script that preforms various system tasks, that I run regularly, but I have to use sudo to run the script, ...
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How to run a python script with sudo without being prompted for a password [duplicate]
I have a python script that restarts the mouse driver
import os
os.system("sudo modprobe -r psmouse")
os.system("sudo modprobe psmouse")
since my mouse doesn't always show up on start. What is a ...
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No caps lock indicator light?
Ever since I first dual-booted Ubuntu 16.04 on my Surface Pro 3, my caps lock indicator LED on my keyboard hasn't worked. I decided to try and do something about it recently. When I type the command
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Create a custom sudo command without password
I want to implement a script to execute any command with root privileges, but without having to put any password.
At the terminal I would like to see it like this:
./newsudo "comand with root ...
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How to make Ubuntu to show a notification when there is a btrfs checksum failure?
Like aa-notify, which shows a notification on my desktop when AppArmor denies something.
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How do I run any application as root? [duplicate]
While logged in as the root account of a CLI installation, almost every application gives me this error:
Don't run this as root!
I want to bypass this error and run the application while logged into ...
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using a sudo command without a password for a certain app
I'm using a python script to run docker, but docker requires sudo commands to run and it's bad practice to store the sudo password in the file or give the whole python script sudo rights, I've seen a ...
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