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Run a shell script as another user that has no password
I would like to run a script from the main ubuntu shell as a different user that has no Password.
I have full sudo priviledges, so I tried this:
sudo su -c "Your command right here" -s /bin/sh ...
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Sudoers NOPASSWD for command not working but ALL is
I've been trying to grant www-data to use sudo service apache2 restart without a password but no matter what I try, nothing works. I have read a few hundred posts regarding this issue on different ...
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How to configure pkexec
Reading this question & answer When to use pkexec vs. gksu/gksudo? & Why is gksu no longer installed by default in Raring 13.04? brought me another one that will create problems for new users ...
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Can I write a python script that will automatically load a terminal as sudo?
I use sudo a lot and I am constantly having to restart my terminal (development of programs that froze usually) and it's a pain in the butt to constantly put in the sudo command and then my password. ...
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Why does sudo cd occasionally return command not found [duplicate]
When exploring my disk drive contents I noticed that from / cd root failed as did sudo cd root; the only way I was able to view the contents was sudo su, then cd root
Pete$ pwd
/
Pete$ cd root
bash: ...
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Bash - Get Sudoer Username?
Say I have the following bash script:
#!/bin/bash
echo $( whoami )
This is what it outputs with and without sudo:
alix@netbook:~$ ./test.sh
alix
alix@netbook:~$ sudo ./test.sh
root
The script ...
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How do I get past a 'frozen' terminal with a sudo password prompt? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Nothing shows up in the terminal when I type my password
When running the Terminal and asked for password the terminal freezes - cannot type in or paste. What is the ...
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How do I become a “superuser”?
The following command fails with an error:
$ dpkg -i libmotif*i386.deb
dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege
How do I become a superuser? I thought I was the superuser?
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What's the difference between root account and simulated roots?
So if I disable my root account with sudo passwd -dl root I still have access to sudo {su,bash} or sudo -{s,i} conceptually how are the elavated rights different from the root account?
I know the ...
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Does sudo really make you root for a while?
On Ubuntu, in what kind of situations, if any, running a command as a non-root to access a file/folder or create/delete a file/folder using sudo may result in "permission denied"
while running the ...
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Opening terminal asks for sudo password
Whenever I open a new terminal within 12.04, I am prompted to enter my sudo password.
Why is this happening?
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sudo refuses my password
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and now that I want to install a program through the terminal with a command starting with sudo, the terminal says Sorry, try again.
I just don't get it, this is my ...
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Problem bash completion apt-get 12.10
I've got an annoying problem with completion and sudo apt-get.
To give an example:
$ sudo apt-get in[Tab][Tab]
in intel_bios_reader
includeres ...
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Beginning with shell scripting
I am fresh into Ubuntu and one of my goals is shell scripting for personal (and maybe public) use.
I'm a novice, though I do understand some of the basics (e.g. what a variable, string, loop, etc... ...
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Best practices for using 'sudo su'
I have been using the terminal for a while now and sometimes (actually, a lot of times) I use a command, like:
cp /etc/test ~/testFolder/
and I get this error:
cp: cannot open `/etc/test` for ...
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How to copy all .sol files in a system to a specific folder
I want to copy all the files that I have in the system with extension sol to the specific folder
can you please help me.
I tried sudo cp / *.sol ~/SOL/
but it doesn't work
UPDATED:
I tried to follow ...
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What are some of the basic sudo commands?
I am looking to learn sudo commands for the GNOME terminal.
I am an avid user of Ubuntu however I'd like very much to learn as many commands and shortcuts as possible. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 32 ...
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Difference between sudo rm -rf and rm -vf?
Recently I have seen one issue with a cache problem. The problem comes with broken hash and that could be fixed with
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
and
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
But I ...
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How to execute a executable with sudo?
I have an executable file but don't know what type or format it is. When I execute like this
$chmod +x xfile
$./xfile
It shows
Permission denied
when I run as super user
$sudo ./xfile
It ...
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1answer
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How can I make my system usable after modifying /usr/share/icons's permissions?
I'm running a duel boot/partition machine with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. On Ubuntu OS, I wanted to change the permissions in one of my directories so could extract files into that directory. In the ...
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Shutdown from terminal without entering password?
I have desktop edition of Ubuntu.
I like the Terminal so that that I prefer to shutdown my computer with the shutdown command.
However when I type shutdown now it prompts me to enter my password.Is ...
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When I run sudo lshw in terminal, it asks for my administrator password, but it won't accept keyboard input when I try to type? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Nothing shows up on the screen when I type my password
I have been trying to run [sudo lshw] but it asks [password for grace: [] ]
So when I try to type my password, it ...
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How do I sudo a command in a script without being asked for a password?
I want to turn my system on automatically every day. So I use the below code in my Python script, but sudo asks me for a password every time:
os.system('sudo sh -c "echo date \'+%s\' -d \'+ \
...
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no sudo permissions to /etc/hostname
When I try to edit my /etc/hostname file, using sudo nano /etc/hostname (or any other editor) I get the following:
Error writing /etc/hostname: Permission denied
I then tried:
sudo chmod u+w ...
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Password not working for sudo (“Authentication failure”)
Before I mention anything further, DO NOT give me a response saying that terminal won't show password input. I'm AWARE of that.
I'm typing my user password in (not a capslock issue), and for some ...
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Can I automate updating/upgrading with sudo in this way?
Please consider this code:
alias fast='echo "password" | sudo -S apt-get update && sudo -S apt-get upgrade'
I have not yet had a problem using it but is it possible that if the first step, ...
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Execute sudo without Password?
Inspired by this question....
I am the sole person using my system with 12.04.
Every time I issue a sudo command; the system asks for the user password (which is good in its own way).
However I was ...
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How do I run an executable file with a double click?
I'm trying to run an executable (testdisk) but double click doesn't work. The only way is to run:
sudo ./testdisk
from terminal. But I'd like to open executables with double click in future. How ...
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Errors followed by command “Sudo nautilus”
I have opened Nautilus with root power to delete some items.When I typed Sudo nautilus,the particular window opened up,but some errors also came along with it as following:
meego@meego-Notebook-PC:~$ ...
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sudo in the Terminal seems not to accept password input [duplicate]
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Nothing shows up on the screen when I type my password
I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and was trying to update software with sudo apt-get .... In the Terminal I am asked ...
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I cannot enter my password when using sudo to install Sophos AV for Linux
I cannot type my password as shown below. After successfully unlocking root account in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
saintmichael@ubuntu:~$ sudo
usage: sudo [-D level] -h | -K | -k | -V
usage: sudo -v [-AknS] ...
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Some programs not found when used with sudo
I just installed go to /usr/local/go, and in ~/.bashrc added this line:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
Now go works from the command line, but sudo go gives me:
$ sudo go
sudo: go: command ...
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sudo ./ : command not found
http://youtu.be/8oYTrf9jnGk for a video i made of it in action.
N.B. - I have my nvidia .run file on my desktop - I double click it, and it appears to run but stops asking for sudo permissions.
So ...
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Cannot echo “hello” > x.txt even with sudo? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
sudo & redirect output
I'm trying to create a file in /var/www, but even with sudo this fails:
user@debVirtual:/var/www$ sudo echo "hello" > f.txt
-bash: f.txt: ...
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Problem accessing superuser with sudo
Through Virtualbox didn't allow me use USB because my account wasn't a vboxuser group, I've to run this command:
$sudo usermod -G vboxusers brallan
After I needed to access to superuser privileges ...
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I cannot enter my password in the terminal - can't install packages [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Nothing shows up on the screen when I type my password
I can open a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T)
I can copy or type in the following:
sudo wget ...
3
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Terminal problems entering password
Every time I try to enable shell theme extension or anything in general in Terminal it asks me for a password but won't accept it.
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I want to copy a directory from one place to another via the command line
I want to copy a directory from one place to another folder.
sudo cp is the command, but after that what should I type? The destination or source first?
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Call a shell script from PHP, run as root
I'm running ubuntu 11.10. I want to be able to call a shell script from php and run that script as root. When my php attempts to call the shell script as root --like this:
$output = shell_exec('sudo ...
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1answer
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How to allow execution without using the 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 ...
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1answer
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How to uninstall Ubuntu Software Center in 11.10? [duplicate]
I am trying to uninstall software center for ubuntu oneric using the command sudo apt-get remove software center and get this as result
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
...
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Environment variables when run with 'sudo'
As example to my question, my ~/.bashrc file contains this lines:
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/intel/mkl/lib/ia32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> export LD_PRELOAD=/opt/intel/mkl/lib/ia32/libmkl_core.so
...
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Why does a command work from shell, but not from the applications menu?
I'm trying to add a command to my applications menu:
But when I select it from the applications menu, it doesn't do anything.
When I run that same command from the shell, however, it runs fine. ...
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Why should I use gksudo for Gtk apps instead of sudo?
I read somewhere that people should use gksudo for applications that use the Gtk GUI instead of sudo? What's the reasoning for this?
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Why does echoing these parameters with sudo not work? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
sudo & redirect output
These are suggestions given by powertop to save energy:
echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
echo 1 > ...
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problems with sudo permissions - /var/lib/sudo owned by uid
my system is a new 11.04 ubuntu and i recently started working with LAMP.
some how, when i tried to change permissions of the var/www/ for netbeans to work on the local server, and did something that ...
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Disable sudo permission to user from command line
I have activated root user in ubuntu and want to use ubuntu as server with no DE. For this I want to disable sudo privilege given to first user. How can I do this from command line ? I know I can use ...
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Looking for a log thats bound to sudo
I've issued the commands sudo su, and sudo sh. Can you please tell me if there are logs associated with sudo, and where I could find them?
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How to detect another sudo process?
Whenever a command is "unable to lock the administration directory", is there any way to easily detect what process is running that is using sudo?
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Remove note about sudo that appears when opening the terminal
Whenever I open the terminal,
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
appears before the terminal. How do I get that to go ...
