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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
The panel ...
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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 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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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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Changing the command executed using suspend/standby in 14.04 LTS
I had some problems with my Thinkpad X200T not suspending under 14.04 LTS, after trying different solutions, it seems the easiest fix is to just execute
sudo pm-suspend
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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
That enabled me ...
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Possible to run gksudo without a password require?
So i have xampp installed on my desktop and since it can use alot of ram if it stays active for a long time i followed tutorial to put together some kind of python script to start and stop services ...
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Where are the startup scripts for Unity Desktop?
I want to run a script as soon as my lightdm authentication succeed, and my Unity starts loading. and i want to run my scripts as a root user.
where are startup scripts located in Unity ?
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How to make 'sudo' grab the password from a file?
I want to run a command that requires the sudo password say:
sudo apt-get update
Isn't this supposed to work (I have stored the password in a normal text file passwd.txt):
sudo apt-get update <~/...
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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, ...