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75 questions linked to/from How do I run specific sudo commands without a password?
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How to avoid being prompted for a password by sudo? [duplicate]
I know I can become root (super user) via the su command but I have to authorize it after entering the commands. Is there a way I can become root and authorize (with password) in one line
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Allow "root" program to run without privileges [duplicate]
I've changed my ctrl-alt-l shortcut so instead of just locking the screen, the system goes into suspend.
(for reference, the command is gksudo pm-suspend-hybrid)
as you can see, the program needs to ...
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How to check UFW status without sudo (or being root)? [duplicate]
I'm running some scripts to check the UFW status and would like to run sudo ufw status without having to do sudo. I was hoping to find a firewall or ufw group to add myself to, but I didn't find any.
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How to run a command that requires sudo at login [duplicate]
I made a script that controls my system LEDs and it works great. I saved it to /usr/local/bin/led-pattern and ran sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/led-pattern so its executable simply by entering the ...
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Poweroff Ubuntu without sudo, without password, over SSH [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and trying to execute "poweroff" as a sudoer but without needing to enter the password.
I added this line to visudo:
nurp ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff
It gives this ...
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Editing Sudoers to avoid typing a password for iwconfig command [duplicate]
I wanted to follow this guide to avoid typing a password every time I want to use "sudo iwconfig" command
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1132821
I tried the steps with "apt-get" command ...
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user Without root Permission [duplicate]
As a system administrator I want to give permission for user let's say "teacher" to run commands as root without knowing password of root, what to do?
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shell script without password [duplicate]
I am executing following steps to mount my server and copy the files.
But it interrupts for password. How can I do it automatic ?
sudo apt install cifs-utils
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=user.name //...
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How do I add a command permission to specific user to do it without password? [duplicate]
I want to give permission to a user to do shutdown command without password. Shutdown command need root privileges. If I give NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers, the user can do all command that need root ...
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startup script that needs a user password to execute itself (ubuntu 16.04) [duplicate]
Let's say I wanted an automated script to start right after a login prompt. The script, however, needs a user password before it can be executed manually using sudo 'script' command from the terminal.
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How to make a command execuitable without root previlages? [duplicate]
I want to make some commands,such as ntpdate,shutdown etc, to execute without asking me for a password or without using "sudo" for "all users"(even normal users who have no sudo privileges) . I want ...
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How can i enable user to have reboot privileges without sudo? [duplicate]
How can i enable user to have reboot privileges without sudo?
Need to keep sudo password enabled.
ssh user@server "sudo reboot" does not work because it requires a password to be entered.
Want ...
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kill process without inputting password [duplicate]
EDIT
I ran the following:
$ echo $USER
goldy
$ hostname
goldy-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-6th
$ sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/kill and added goldy goldy-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-6th = (root) NOPASSWD: /bin/kill
And ...
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Unable to remove sudo access from ubuntu user [duplicate]
When i have install ubuntu at that time create admin user, Now my plan is to remove sudo access from this user and added custom sudofile for this user.
First I remove sudo group from this user:
$ ...
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How do I copy files that need root access with scp?
I have an Ubuntu server to which I am connecting using SSH.
I need to upload files from my machine into /var/www/ on the server, the files in /var/www/ are owned by root.
Using PuTTY, after I log in,...
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How to set up passwordless SSH access for root user [duplicate]
I need to configure a machine so software installation can be automated remotely via SSH. Following the wiki, I was able to setup SSH keys so my user can access the machine without a password, but I ...
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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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Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL cron daemon not running after reboot
I have Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS running under Windows 10 Pro. After every reboot, the cron daemon is not started.
I can start it manually with sudo service cron start.
What can I configure or what system ...
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How to inhibit suspend temporarily?
I have searched around a bit for this and can't seem to find anything helpful.
I have my PC running Ubuntu 12.10 set up to suspend after 30 minutes of inactivity. I don't want to change that, it works ...
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I need rules to drop some malicious Apache connections
I drop all traffic on ports except on 80 for my web server.
I have some rules like this on iptables:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -m string --string "cgi" --algo bm --to 1000 -j DROP
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How do I call gnome-session-quit with countdown from Unity?
To be able to shutdown with a keyboard shortcut we can assign gnome-session-quit ---power-off to a custom shortcut.
In Unity this will lead to the following dialog:
Then we need another at least two ...
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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 do I make a sudo command start at start-up with a 1 minute delay?
I would like to make a sudo command (sudo service smbd restart) run after 1 minute of being logged on. How would I go about doing this?
P.S. This is a system with no monitor, mouse, keyboard or ...
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How do I add sudo commands to a keyboard shortcut?
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on a Sony Vaio laptop, which features a keyboard backlight. I can enter this command into the terminal, putting a "0" in place of *value* to turn the backlight off, and a "2" ...
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Allow to mount/unmount a specific device to a specific user
I know I can give permission to use "mount/unmount" through sudo some users without password.
But how can I give permission to use "mount/unmount" only for /dev/sda2 and not for /dev/sda10?
For ...
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Trying to pass two variables in a bash script
I am trying to make the following script work for the ufw command which is expecting me to press y or n to confirm my command. In addition I want to pass my password to the sudo command (I know, bad ...
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Run "sudo arduino" with .desktop file
To the close voters: seemingly a dupe, but not quite, at least not of the suggested one: in the linked question, the commands can be added safely to the sudoers file. In case of an IDE, it is a bad ...
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/etc/profile permission denied
I'm running an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS partition and I've recently have had issues logging in.
From the GUI login screen, when I enter my username and password, it takes me right back to the login screen. ...
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How to execute "sudo chmod 777 /dev/ttyACM0" from shell script?
I want to give access to serial port /dev/ttyACM0. How to execute the "sudo chmod 777 /dev/ttyACM0" command from shell script ?
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How to monitor battery condition and pop-up notification?
Essentially, I would like this comment into a working answer.
I know how to extract the battery percentage from How to check battery status using terminal?:
upower -i $(upower -e | grep BAT) | ...
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