Questions tagged [sudo]
The sudo command allows users to run programs with the privileges of a different user (normally the root user). Use this tag for questions related to configuring and using the sudo command.
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run apt-get with a different user
I have a script where I add a new user sudo and after I need to install packages.
Is that possible, to execute the apt-get as the new user?
For example, I'm logged with the user1. I run the script. ...
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apt-get install -f errors [duplicate]
Whenever I try doing
sudo apt-get install -f
I get this
dell@elliot:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependancy tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting ...
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UBUNTU 16.04 - wifi stopped working after fixed "/usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set"
I missed up my chmod -R 777, but have now fixed it on secure boot.
But after that my wifi stopped working. Have already restarted both network service and manager.
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SSH, Key-based authentication and passwords
For the last year I've been searching for this regularly and still haven't found an answer to my query.
I work on Ubuntu servers quite a lot, both locally (VM) and staging / production servers and I ...
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Ignore sudo in bash script
I have a small bash script:
#!/bin/bash
touch dummy.txt
If I execute this script with sudo then it will create dummy.txt which will be root protected.
What I want to do is:
Regardless of whether ...
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How To Restart Sudo Service on Ubuntu 16.10
I just migrated over to Ubuntu 16.10 from Debian Testing and modified the sudoers file, but there doesn't appear to be a 'sudo' service that I can restart to get it to recognize the changes.
Does ...
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Why is kate sudo-ed when remote file type is unknown?
I am accessing a remote server in Konqueror file manager using fish:// protocol (over SSH). All known file types that are plain text I can edit in Kate directly (right click > Open with > Kate). There ...
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make sudoers use their own history file
I just can't seem to get it to work in Ubuntu, it should be a simple answer, maybe someone can help me. All I am trying to do is get a sudoers to use their own history file, but if I set the history ...
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Error running sudo (sudo: unable to resolve host [name]: Connection timed out)
Whenever I run a sudo command, I get an error message.
jay@ignumtop:~$ sudo true
sudo: unable to resolve host ignumtop: Connection timed out
I'm not sure how this is really affecting my computer or ...
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Decrease privilege in a bash script
Is it possible to call from a bash script, run as sudo, another script with normal user privileges?
Another option would be to run a specific command as a normal user but the whole script would be ...
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Prevent other users to login as me and view my files
My Ubuntu user account name "user-3121" with type as "Administrator". There is one more account named "sysadmin" with type as "Administrator". How do I know whether "sysadmin" can login as me and view ...
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Allow user in a chrooted shell to use a sudo command
I have a user chrooted to a directory, and everything is working smoothly. I want a group this user is in to be able to restart a single process that's being managed by supervisor, however, and I can'...
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Why is sudo colourless when user is colourful for `ls` command? [duplicate]
When I run the ls command using sudo-powers the file and directory names are all in white. When I run it as user the directory names are in bluish-purple, the scripts are in green and and the Asembler ...
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Virtual host error duplicate
I'm running the following command:
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/projecttest.com
and I am getting the following error:
cp: cannot stat ‘/etc/apache2/...
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What happens if you do sudo passwd without specifying a user?
I wanted to change my own password (as an admin) so I did the following command:
sudo passwd
and then it prompted for a password but when I tryed to relog, my password was not changed. I'm now ...
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Change root password without holding shift on grub [duplicate]
When I hold the left shift key on grub menu, nothing appears and it still boots to Ubuntu like it normally does (Ubuntu is the only machine installed). How can I change the password for root elseway? ...
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mona is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported
So I just did a sudo apt-get upgrade and said Y to a question it asked me and now I am not a sudoer anymore. Even our root isn't a sudoer anymore. What's the solution?
Configuration file '/etc/...
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Changing gsettings for another user from an ansible script (started by vagrant)
I asked the question already on stackoverflow, but figured, that this could be a better place to get an answer: I want to provision a virtual machine with Ubuntu 16 LTS using vagrant and ansible (...
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Gnucash won't start
After new installation of Ubuntu 16.04 freshly installed through apt-get Gnucash not working in normal mode. It will starts only in terminal & and requires sudo "sudo Gnucash". After several ...
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Is it dangerous to leave Synaptic Package Manager open?
Just a thought that crossed my mind. Usually when I run Synaptic Package Manager, I do it with sudo, because obviously it is fairly useless otherwise.
Sometimes I just leave it open; is this ...
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How to use sudoers for python's script
I had a script (named script) in bash, and I wanted to allow an user (named "userScript") to run it as root without giving any password.
So, I edited the file /etc/sudoers and added 2 lines at the ...
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Ubuntu Unity 16.10 'sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified'
I made a script to set/unset the proxy setting for when I switch between work and home. The script works perfectly and now I wanna run it every time automatically when I login so I put it in my ....
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Telegram only runs with sudo
I don't know why, but I can only run Telegram with sudo. I just downloaded the tar from desktop.telegram.com and extracted its contents in /usr/local/Telegram.
I can now open the program with:
sudo ...
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I can't install ubuntu-restricted-extras [duplicate]
When I try to install ubuntu-restricted-extras, using sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras, I get the following error:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource ...
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PyCharm on Launcher running as Sudo
So I can run PyCharm fine from terminal as Sudo, I have followed the guide to get it running off the launcher but it is not running as Sudo. Any idea?
Ubuntu 16.04
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File in /etc/sudoers.d/ not recognized
Running a fresh install of Ubuntu server 16.04.1, I tried to add a file in /etc/sudoers.d/ to give one user root privileges for a certain command.
I added the file /etc/sudoers.d/servicetest with the ...
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Running a single executable with sudo adds two processes in process list
I wrote a program that captures the packets from the network interface. As it listens the network adapter, I need to run it with sudo. The question is, why when I run it, does it add two processes to ...
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Messed up root permissions Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
While changing a directory ownership, accidentally I did
sudo chown subhadip / instead of sudo chown MyApp
After realizing my mistake, tried to fixed few permissions i.e., sudo etc. by sudo ...
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Wont update ppa repositories [duplicate]
I have been having this problem recently. Everytime I add a ppa it says click enter, so it succeeds. Then I need to run sudo apt-get update in order to update the ppa. So when I run this this comes up....
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Boot from USB, edit system files
I made a mistake in my evdev configuration, and now my system won't boot. I can boot from Ubuntu on a USB stick, though. How can I edit the relevant system file as root so that I can boot normally, ...
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Does Ubuntu store sudo password in cache? [duplicate]
If we fire a command with sudo in terminal, it asks for password for the first time and if we fire another command with sudo immediately in same terminal, it won't ask for password again. Why is it so ...
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Cannot upgrade Chrome 52 to 54 in 16.04
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
google-chrome-stable is already the newest version (52.0....
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See whether sudo mode is on (password is cached) on the command-line prompt
I want to know whether it is possible to indicate on the command-line (ideally in the prompt), whether sudo mode is on.
By sudo mode I mean that I have already entered my password correctly once in ...
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Can't install xfburn, unable to locate package [duplicate]
when i try to install xfburn it comes with this message:
It says, it is unable to locate package xfburn
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Password prompt when installing software [duplicate]
I want to disable the prompt for a password when installing a software and when launching a vpn client (torGard).
How can disable this?
What I've done:
in terminal >
sudo visudo /etc/sudoers/
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Where are sudo's insults stored?
For those who like humour, sudo can be configured to print a random more or less insulting or funny phrase instead of the neutral Sorry, try again. by adding the line below to /etc/sudoers (using the ...
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Installing Android Studio without sudo access
Is it possible to install the Android SDK for Android Studio. I'm working on a shared computer but I'm not on the sudoers file
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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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Ubuntu 16.04 run python script when login screen is displayed (rc.local and lightdm not working)
I want to run this command when the login screen that prompts for your password is displayed: python ~/blabla/unlock.py &. I've tried using both lightdm and rc.local to no avail. Any help is ...
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What is sudo password [duplicate]
Actually i'm a new user i'm getting problem in knowing sudo password
First of all, What is it? Secondly, Where do I get it? I'd really appreciate some help.
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Why do I need sudo? [duplicate]
This is a question from a rookie just trying to understand how and why things work like they do. Why do I have to use sudo everytime? The second use of sudo in a term session doesn't require a ...
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What is the most secure way to use sudo permissions in a script?
I have a bash script which needs to perform some actions while using sudo, both with root user permissions and permissions for other users, such as main user on a postgres database. These actions need ...
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Run Script + Desktop File as Root w/out Prompt
I have two files, one being a desktop file, the other being a shell script. The desktop file is meant to open the shell script, and execute it in a xTerm GUI as root, without needing "sudo password."
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How to make a script accessible to root user?
A regular user can run this script, but root can't find it.
I have a simple script that I have saved in ~/bin. I updated the .profile file to include this folder in the PATH. I can go into terminal, ...
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Attempting different command with sudo and without
I have recently uninstalled and reinstalled pip. Then when I try executing it I get
eli@eli-VirtualBox:/usr/local/bin$ pip --version
bash: /usr/bin/pip: No such file or directory
But when I try it ...
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gpgkeys: key F60F4B3D7FA2AF80 not found on keyserver
How can I fix this issue?
mona@pascal:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign file: InRelease
Get:1 file: Release.gpg [181 B]
Get:2 file: Release [196 B] ...
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Getting "Permission denied" even when using sudo command [duplicate]
I'm attempting to add a file to my /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder and for some reason despite using sudo it still says permission denied. Here's the code I'm trying to run.
$ sudo cat >> /etc/...
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Deleted my /usr/ directory, recovered with chroot now getting a Segmentation fault (core dumped) trying to run Sudo
I have a problem that I've been trying to fix for the last few days. Each time I resolve an issue, a new one pops up.
Let me outline what has happened.
I foolishly deleted all sub dirs in the /usr ...
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Sudo user not in sudo group?
When adding user like this :
sudo adduser someuser --ingroup sudo
Added user can use sudo but he is not in /etc/group sudo nor in /etc/sudoers
So how does it work ?
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Ubuntu on android linux deploy -sudo perm_root permission denied
I have installed ubuntu on samsung galaxy s3 using linux deploy and
I can get the desktop using VNC.
But I cant seem to use sudo? For example if I say:
sudo apt-get install git
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