Questions tagged [su]
command for substituting user i.e. logging to a session as a different user.
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How can I install sudo without using su? [duplicate]
I need to use sudo but when I try to use it, a prompt tells me the command is not found and I need to install sudo.
So when I switch to su so I can gain root access to install sudo, it says auth ...
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Using environment variables with su -c
I try to run nvm as a different user from a bash script. It is installed already and the NVM_DIR environment variable is set in /home/user/.bashrc:
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ]...
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Can't login to root account
I restricted the use of su by creating an admin group
sudo usermod -a -G admin "admin user"
sudo dpkg-statoverride --update -add root admin 4750 /bin/su
Later I regretted this so I removed the ...
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Restrict the use of su
I've restricted the use of su by creating an admin group
sudo groupadd admin
sudo usermod -a -G admin <YOUR ADMIN USERNAME>
sudo dpkg-statoverride --update --add root admin 4750 /bin/su
I've ...
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Not able to switch to root using sudo su and su command [duplicate]
Not able to switch to root using sudo su and su command:
user@user-HP-Pro-3330-MT:/$ sudo su
The program 'sudo' can be found in the following packages:
* sudo
* sudo-ldap
Try: sudo apt install <...
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sudo is not installed, both sudo and su are not working
When trying to switch to root using sudo su :
Error- sudo is not installed
When trying to switch with su command:
Error- this program is not installed
$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="...
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Can not root: after removing ZSH and returning to default bash
I can not $ sudo su everytime, I enter the command, the terminal says :
can not execute /usr/bin/zsh no such file or directory
How to return to default bash of Ubuntu and make bash as default ...
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SOLVED Switching user in automated scripts like cron jobs
If I run su -c "notify-send test" myusername as root, the command will be executed by myusername (me).
But if I place a script in /etc/cron.daily or /lib/systemd/system-sleep and it is ...
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change default username for SU command
I want to change the default for su command ... so when I use su (without username) it changes user to root but I want replace it with my desired username and not su default.
I already checked pam....
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gpg: problem with the agent: Permission denied
GPG fails with gpg: problem with the agent: Permission denied when I invoke it after switching my user with su:
su - user2
gpg --symmetric --passphrase foo foo.txt
If I invoke the command from my ...
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I can login using su in other accounts, but not using login screen
When I try to login to my administrative account using Ubuntu's login screen, I cannot. However, I can access other accounts and log in to them. Additionally, I can login to my account using su ...
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Prompt has been changed after upgrade to 18.04.1 after using “su” to change user
Just updated to 18.04.1 I use Terminal only. When I do an su to one my users that runs a game, I only get a $ and no name of the user and does not show current location. Also, tab autocomplete ...
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after su, the script stops working
we are running script the the first command in it is
su (switch user)
and after that other command:
#!/bin/bash
su sys_osrqa
whoami
pwd
but when the script run, it asks for password, and after we ...
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Reset permissions on (K)Ubuntu 18.04: newly created user gets “Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied”
so I seem to have screwed up some permissions on my Ubuntu desktop system. I wanted to let a newly created user only grant access to one single folder (to run in terminal only one app within that ...
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Cannot switch user - Error Code: 1
I'm in an interesting situation where I'm trying to log in to my headless Ubuntu instance in the cloud and I cannot switch to one of my users.
Here's what I'm trying:
login_id@cloud_machine:~> su ...
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sudo -i and sudo su - explained [duplicate]
Why are sudo -i and sudo su - equivalent?
Why do they change to the root user without asking for a password whereas su - asks for the root password?
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su, non interactive, without password
I have user jenkins and anotherUser.
I want to be able to execute a command from jenkins on anotherUser.
When I run the following from the terminal it works as expected:
su -c "bash /home/dev/...
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Troubleshoot local printer with journalctl command with elevated privileges
Since root passwd is disabled i can't invoke su -c 'journalctl -u cups.service --since="None" --until="2018-07-03"' > troubleshoot-logs.txt I'm looking for sudo analogue
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su: Authentication Failure, stopped working
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04. I used su command, entered my accounts password. It worked successfully for few times.
Then I got Authentication Failure, now I'm not sure if I entered wrong ...
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Can't sudo unless I su as another user and then su back to my account? [duplicate]
user@greeneyes:~$ sudo apt-get install xdotool
user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
user@greeneyes:~$ su verelse
Password:
verelse@greeneyes:/home/user$ su user
Password: ...
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Is it possible to run a command within a login shell using sudo or su?
I'm trying to run a non-interactive command within a login shell (using su - or sudo -i) but couldn't make it work so far.
Within ~/.bashrc I have sourced a script which sets all variables my ...
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Set up sudo so that a particular common user can edit /etc/fstab
How can I set up sudo so that a particular common user can edit /etc/fstab?
I've thought to edit /etc/sudoers.d file to do this, but how do we edit /etc/fstab in this file?
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After upgrade, rc.local now gives su must be ran from a terminal in rc.local
I have a few Ubuntu systems which use the su command from within the rc.local script. This updates a users git repo on the local machine, so its important that the ownership of files is kept to the ...
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writing a bash script that uses sudo [duplicate]
I am sure that this is a very basic question but I'm afraid that I have been unable to get it to work or understand what is going on.
I have a node project that I usually run with
sudo npm start
...
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How can I access my files when I'm not logged in with my admin account (i.e. as a guest)? [duplicate]
I can no longer access my regular administrator account on my Ubuntu (see Ubuntu won't log me in with correct password) however I really need to access my files. I can only get on the PC with a ...
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Unable to enter superuser using su
Whenever I try to run
su
Password:
Then it shows error
setgid: Operation not permitted
This problem arose after I changed permissions using chown
Output of ls -lsa /bin/su is:
40 -rwxrwxr-x 1 ...
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Dell first boot failed, result in no session created
I just receive my brand new dell laptop wich is chiped with a pre-installed ubuntu-dell image.
So I did the first boot to create my account and an "unrecoverable error" (or similar) occured and it ...
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How to alias pip to pip3 while using sudo for a specific user?
I have python2 and python3 both installed on Ubuntu 16.04, and use python3 primarily. I have both pip and python aliased to pip3 and python3, respectively, in my user's .bashrc.
However, I had always ...
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How do I set environment variable for all users even when doing sudo su?
I created a file named x.sh in the directory /etc/profile.d/ so it should be accessible to all users. I expected when I change the current user in terminal (of logged-in user) using command sudo su ...
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Collecting user password via GUI in a script
I know that using the sudo and ssh tools it is possible to use GUI to ask for a password in a script by setting, respectively, the SUDO_ASKPASS and SSH_ASKPASS variables in which we specify a ...
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How do I become root when “su -i” is not supported? [duplicate]
As far as I know the following command is supposed to make me root:
su -i
Nevertheless, when I type it in Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus, I get the following message:
su: invalid option -- 'i'
Usage: su [...
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How to run Ubuntu as normal user and switch to admin to change environment variables
I've just started learning Linux at uni, and my first homework is to:
change current user to admin, do some stuff with environment variables, switch back to normal user
I can normally log in ...
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Does sudo su create a child terminal?
This is what happened when I executed sudo su followed by exit
$ sudo su
# exit
exit
$
The exit command does not close my terminal emulator.
Is it a child terminal?
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Changing wallpaper and language setting after su command?
Some time after su command I feel uncertain by seeing other wallpaper than the one corresponding to the new user. Is there any command usable at a batch, that I could use for quick switching that ...
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How to create service user for application and run it at startup from that user
I have an application, that I should run at startup.
I created system user for that application with useradd -r serviceUser and made him the owner of application directory.
Then I write startup ...
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Sudo and su simultaneously? [duplicate]
To switch between users sometimes sudo su newuser is used.
What is meaning of sudo su together?
Can anyone tell exactly how they both command together work?
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Best practices on using sudo in a bash script
I have a long and long-running bash script where a handful of commands need to be run as root while the majority of commands need to be run as the regular user before sudo, because it would mess up ...
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I can use sudo but I can't use su due to a password Authentication failure, shouldn't both be the same password? [duplicate]
when I try using a command with sudo everything works fine, however, if I want to log in as the superuser using su it doesn't let me. Why?
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could not enter to root directory
$ sudo su
Cannot execute /bin/ksh: No such file or directory
$ sudo chsh -s /bin/bash root
Password:
chsh: PAM: Authentication failure
This also is not changing my directory; I could not enter ...
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Su without password [closed]
How can I do su from one user to another in same server without any password prompt for example su - xyz while in ABC user profile. Note:- I can't do sudo only su is required.
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Why su didn't work? [duplicate]
I'm new to ubuntu .. i tried to use su command to enter as a root but didn't work but i tried to use sudo -i , su root and sudo -s worked
I need to know why su didn't work ?
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“alias android-disconnect=”fusermount -u /media/GalaxyNexus”
I dont think this is a big deal but it has been annoying me for the past month and im a newbie to linux and im learning it at the moment,
everytime i do Sudo -i or Su "Username" it actually logs in ...
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error when typing su
when I run the command su it says:
roger@RogerPC:/$ sudo su
sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin `sudoers_policy'
sudo: /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so must be only be writable by ...
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su to 'superuser system' fails even when root tries it, even after passwd setting
In order to minimise risk of fouling up the wife's machine, I have installed using her id, then created user userme, a guestlike user without sudoers privileges, and userME, a system user without ...
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Execute a command as another user by providing THEIR password
I need to execute a command as another user by providing THEIR password. This must be able to be done without a terminal aka purely through bash script. I also need to be able to do this without ...
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Why is su preserving SHELL=/bin/bash in this case?
I was experimenting with switching users with the su command. I'm confused why su carrying the SHELL environment variable over to a user monty. The exercise is shown below:
vagrant@cats:/home$ cat /...
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Why doesn't the 'su' command work in Ubuntu but does in other Linux distros? [duplicate]
When I type the su command in a terminal I get
su: Authentication failure
Why doesn't this work in Ubuntu? I have tried this command in another Linux distro (Parrot OS) and it does work.
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su without password with pam su-authentication
I've done the following configuration in ubuntu 14.04 but it's still asking password.
$ /etc/passwd
test:x:1004:1004::/home/test:/bin/bash
$/etc/pam.d/su
auth required pam_wheel.so group=...
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How do I restrict the users from installing applications from being installed on the linux machine?
How do I restrict the users from installing applications from being installed on the ubuntu linux machine? I have root privileges and there are three users in the ubuntu linux machine. I would like to ...
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If I only use when needed, does enabling the “su” account present dangers? [duplicate]
So I'm the only the user of my computer, and I eventually figured out how to enable the "su" user on my account with a password (really quite simple actually), just in case I ever needed to do ...
