Questions related to the sudo command that allows users to run programs with the privileges of a different user (normally the root user).
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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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When trying to install Wine on 12.10, 'Sudo' command will not let me type in a password
As the title explains, I have been attempting to install Wine on my laptop which is running 12.10. When I access the command terminal and entered
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
I was ...
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How to install Git on Ubuntu?
When I run this command:
apt-get install git-core
It shows:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory ...
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Cannot execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory
I was trying to install teamviewer then I canceled while installation progress
then this happened !!!!
and now I can't do anything !
any help ??
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sudo update stucks at connecting
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server, and I want to install the GUI, which causes error everytime. but before installing the GUI, I want to run the update command:
sudo apt-get update
But I always get ...
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changed username in user account and now am not in sudo
I changed my username in the "user account" screen and now i cannot install programs. I also noticed that my home directory still carries the name of the old user. how do i fix it please/
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Can we grant sudo to an already opened application?
So, can we grant sudo to an already opened application ? I wish to first open an application as normal user and incase if i need root permissions on it i wish to grant su without restarting the ...
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Can't reboot system using ssh
I am running Ubuntu Server 12.04 and I would like to reboot my system. I ssh into it fine, but when I run sudo reboot I get the following error -bash: /usr/bin/sudo: Input/output error. It is at this ...
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Upgrade sudoer to 1.8.1 or above
What's the best way to upgrade the sudo from 1.7.2 by default to 1.8.1 or above? I've an auditing program that required sudo 1.8.1 or above. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks a lot.
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Ask root permission in a program
I wanted to make a program (with quickly) that edits some root files.
My question:
How can i ask for root permission (after a button is clicked) to execute a command (just like the software center ...
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How to sudo visudo without a password, remove all prompts for password [closed]
Websites tell me to use sudo when I have no password, usually tell me one of two things.
It is bad security
Or use 'sudo visudo' and the %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL line
I would like to not ...
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Remove password attempt at sudo 12.10
I just installed Quantal Quetzal and when I type sudo in the terminal it asks for the password. Before upgrading, I changed something in the file, and it wouldn’t ask for passwords. I have already ...
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I can't run graphical programs with sudo (Ubuntu 12.10)
If I try to run a program with GUI (e.g. Nautilus) as root, I'm just getting the following output:
gksu nautilus
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations ...
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Are console and gnome applications using different sudoers file ?
According to our office Admin rules, developer's machines should not have admin privilege, which i hated so much. so I decided to enable the sudo access with some work around found in web (booting ...
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How to upgrade 12.10 beta 2 version to 12.10 final release [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to verify I have updated from Ubuntu 11 beta to stable?
I want to upgrade 12.10 beta 2 version to final release of ubuntu 12.10 eagerly waiting. Pls do help me.
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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 do I work around sudo 'segmentation fault' on basic bash commands?
I am sure the answers are out there, but alas there are too many answers (here and elsewhere) to other questions stopping me from finding them. I just encountered something substantially similar to ...
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How to run a file with sudo without a password? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 ...
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Sudo Non-Password access to /sys/power/state
On my computer, pm-hibernate appears to be broken, however using the command echo disk > /sys/power/state appears to work perfectly. Now I just need regular user access to it, using sudo. How do I ...
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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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How to do a sudo verification that lasts long enough for (unprivileged) make to finish?
I often use the following construct for building and installing a tarball:
sudo -v && make && sudo make install
which will allow me to enter my password immediately and have ...
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Wrong autocompletion with sudo apt-get
Does anybody know why if I type:
apt-get upg<TAB>
I get:
apt-get upgrade
but if I type:
sudo apt-get upg<TAB>
I get:
sudo apt-get upgrade-from-grub-legacy
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Allow any user to use shutdown with my own shell
First of all sorry if my english is not excelent but it isnt my native language.
I have a project where I'm building my own shell (named MYSHELL). One of the tasks is to create my own built-in ...
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gksu not working
gksu nautilius
Running the above or trying to run the nautlius script -'browse as root' gives the following error
/home/borax12/.gtkrc-2.0:6: error: scanner: unterminated string constant
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how to get back sudo previledges? [duplicate]
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Regain Sudo rights after removing from admin group
I have been given a laptop with ubuntu 9.10 installed. it has only one User.
The problem is sudo is disabled and thus ...
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Broke my sudoers password, how do I reset it without using sudo? [duplicate]
I thought it would be a good idea to finally take the password off my little netbook since it has never actually been of any use, and has mostly just slowed down . But when I went to change my ...
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Ubuntu Live CD: How to switch user on LiveCD to “root”
I have created my customized live CD by following the instructions @ Ubuntu Forum Thread 688872
The Live CD gets created fine and it is able to bootup as well. I see my customized setting in place.
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What are the differences between sudo, su, visudo, chroot, and gksu?
What are the differences between sudo, su, visudo, chroot, and gksu ?
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What am I doing wrong? Visudo
I am trying to make it so that I can have a script running on my computer that will check to see if a reboot code has been sent, and it will be checking a MySQL database. I have the php script ...
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Home folder in `root` and not in `home`… I'm confused!
I have an issue with my home folder and this are giving me some permission problems.
I've installed an application that tells me that I have no permission to save in /home/username/Desktop, but in ...
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About the installation of Moses tool on ubuntu 11.04
we are working on project related to language translation with the help of moses tool...but we are not able to install moses...we face some installation problems.
we make a directory on desktop named ...
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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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How to change account type back to administrator in 12.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost administrative password?
I unexpetedly deleted administrator account and the other accounts are asking root password
Cannot install anything as ...
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How do I permanently disable 'elevated privileges'?
I am using Lucid Lynx 10.04, and am having difficulty setting the sudo timeout to 0 minutes, or instant, as in, essentially, disabling the 'elevated privileges' feature.
I have tried editing ...
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How does the sudoers work?
During an installation, as usual, we create our main user account, and then we can do sudo commands with it without problem.
Now, when I created another account, and I wanted to do sudo, it gave me ...
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Run script at user login as root, with a catch
I'm trying to run a PHP script as root on user login. The PHP script adds a Samba share to the Samba config, thus the need for root privileges. The only issue here, is that the user doesn't exist ...
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sudo apt-get update problem
I have a problem with sudo apt-get update that I can't seem to fix and It's causing problems with alot of installations I want to do. I run Ubuntu 12.04.
Ign http://ftp.availo.se precise InRelease
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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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/ folder permissions
I've changed / folder owner from root to administrator account.
Now no sudo commands are working.
It used to show sudoers are in mode 04666 it should b in the mode 04000
Then i did something and it ...
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how to use sudo command to install .tar.gz? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?
I am newbie to ubuntu. I would like someone to explain how to use sudo command to unzip & install .tar.gz file to me.
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sudo credential caching on by default
Just installed a minimal ubuntu 12.04, then installed xfce4 and xinit from the command line after first boot. Totally vanilla installation afaik.
I'm noticing that sudo caches the password until I ...
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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
$sudo ./xfile
It ...
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http_proxy - not working with sudo [closed]
I am working on RHEL6 behind a proxy at my workplace.
In order to make wget and other applications work, I modified my /etc/environment and added definitions for http_proxy, https_proxy, and ...
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How to repair “sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0640, should be 0440?”
Why might sudo chmod -R a+w * cause
sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0640, should be 0440 sudo:
no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
and how might it be made to work?
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Creating Kernel Module without Sudo
How do I create a kernel module without the use of sudo? I know the normal way(sudo insmod, sudo rmmod), but we're not allowed to use sudo in school.
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Can't restart apache due to invalid 'echo' command
When i enter command
admin@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
[sudo] password for admin:
I get this msg
Syntax error on line 3 of /etc/apache2/conf.d/fqdn:
Invalid command 'echo', ...
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Is it possible to run an application as superuser within boot without input?
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop machine running as a server with no input devices accessible after initial setup. I need to place any application that I want to run within the boot process. I have one ...
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I have 2 different GEdits?
When I load GEdit, it is different from sudo GEdit.
Normal GEdit gives me Gtk warnings in the console, and ithas a different look.
When I install plugins on either version, it doesn't reflect on the ...
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Sudo arguments not working
Flags/arguments to sudo on my system aren't working.
peter@Sirius:~$ sudo -h
env: -h: No such file or directory
peter@Sirius:~$ sudo -u postgres
env: -u: No such file or directory
However, ...
