Questions tagged [sudo]
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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How to remove password requirement from `dash` executable and add it to the dock
I have 7 files for fan control which have following lines inside:
#!/bin/dash
echo level k | sudo tee /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
where k after echo level is from 1 to 7
The script runs fine, however it ...
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Please Help:gedit via Terminal (sudo gedit): Unable to remove “highlight current line” and Unable to modify preferences?
I sued gedit with sudo. I would like to unchecked: (the Highlight the current line, Highlight matching brackets, and Display line numbers) of gedit during the sudo gedit. But I can't do that.
Hence
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Using 'sudo' with `virtualenv`
I am working on a virtual environment: sk, which I made this way:
$ mkvirtualenv sk -p python3
I use workon sk to activate this environment and work in it. When I try to run some functionality of ...
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add user to visudo to run any command without sudo but still get permission denied
i run like this:
prod:~$ sudo visudo
and then i added myusername here
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
foobar ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
i tried this also:
sudo sh -c '...
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How to lock a file for administrator (su/sudo password-protected) access only from command line / terminal?
I have some sensitive files that I want to protect from my own impulsivity. They're in ~ (/home) not /dev or /bin; those files are protected by default. However, like system files in /dev, /bin, or ...
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ubuntu 20.04 service autostart
I have a process which I start using sudo ./whatever
I want to make it a service which starts automatically.
Have created a .service file and put it in the /etc/systemd/system but it won't start ...
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Not able to uninstall TLauncher from /opt [closed]
My brother has installed a TLauncher for Linux application in Ubuntu so that he could play Minecraft. Now I want to uninstall it, but I am not able to do so because it has been installed in the /opt ...
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hey i am noob can you help me getting these error and also as i was not able to mention more than 8 links so i remove https: from some [duplicate]
Ign:7 //ppa.launchpad.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu eoan InRelease
Hit:8 //in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-backports InRelease
Ign:9 //ppa.launchpad.net/leaeasy/dde/ubuntu eoan ...
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Sudo error, resolve error [duplicate]
Every time I type, sudo <command> I get sudo: unable to resolve host sturtz: Name or service not known, Sudo works, I am just asking how to fix this. I am using Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS.
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pycurl gives error while installing wfuzz on ubuntu 19.10
sudo pip3 install wfuzz
Collecting wfuzz
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3f/1b/f9f59bf4ced03924f29b5830af4644bd59ba2f1d728d6fba154161d3e753/wfuzz-2.4.6-py3-none-any.whl
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Why does pip give an error while installing a tool?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/pip-install-kbqd70bu/pycurl/setup.py", line 234, in configure_unix
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/...
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Using sudo gives me the error: Sorry, try again
This is what happens when I try :
sudo gedit
[sudo] password for casper:
Sorry, try again.
My username is casper.
I seem to be in the sudo group :
id | grep sudo
uid=1000(casper) gid=1000(casper)...
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Why are there package errors saying 'it can't find an archive for it' Ubuntu 19.10 [duplicate]
I have had a problem with ubuntu 19.10. I try to install packages on the terminal but it always comes up with the same error:
E: The package needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for ...
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Expand partition in encrypted partition with sudo command line
Can i know how to expand sda3 partitions
sda3 LVM encrypted
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Linux Noob here E: Unable to locate package mhddfs and Sudo apt-get update error [duplicate]
Hi I cannot find this file called Mhddfs in my Ubuntu Linux server
PS: There is no Gui in this server so i didn't cannot download the files of this
Gui also will lose alot of performance so i don't ...
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Are two instances of pip & youtube-dl installed after using sudo to update?
I always used pip3 install --upgrade pip && pip3 install --upgrade youtube-dl to update pip and the relevant program youtube-dl. However, I started getting the warning:Defaulting to user ...
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If I add a user to sudoers to be able to perform root functions
If I add a user to sudoers to be able to perform root functions, does it mean this user is the same as root?
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X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication when using sudo
I have a headless server and a desktop client, both running XUbuntu 20.04.
I log in to the server using 'ssh -X servername'
Graphical applications work fine from the server as a normal user, and ...
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After SUDO APT install, how to modify the installed files with root:root permission
In our org, we allow only "sudo apt-get" for a normal user. Now the problem is with those files created after this installation are with root:root permission, where this user cannot modify.
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Can't change the owner back to the root (can't use sudo command) in WSL Ubuntu
I faced this issue when I want to use sudo command :
sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
then ...
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What if l run “sudo apt uninstall sudo”? [duplicate]
I did not run this command in terminal,but what will happen if i did?i'm just curious.And if something bad happens,how can we solve this?
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Disable sudo password and ask yes or no like in Windows
Every time I install new software in Ubuntu Software Center, it asks me for my password.
I don't want to disable the authentication because it won't ask me for the password if I click on something ...
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ubuntu matte text editors never have sudo permission?
hello i just installed ubuntu matte and am trying to get a good code editor working like VScode and brackets working. vscode keeps asking for the need to save as sudo. i can allow it once by putting ...
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I get localhost dns resolution error when using command sudo after disabling local dns resolver in Ubuntu 20.04
When I to use the 'sudo' command, I get this error: sudo: unable to resolve host "hostname": Temporary failure in name resolution
Happened after I disabled the local dns server on Ubuntu 20.04
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Messed up the sudo access!
Not sure if this is the place for troubleshooting, but I am gonna give it a shot.
I was trying to make my computer turn off without needing sudo, and I must have done something wrong because I get a ...
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Trying to modify /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory, but getting permission denied even with sudo
I am trying to edit the file /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory, but I'm getting permission denied even if I use sudo or switch to root user via sudo -i and try to edit using that account. How can I get ...
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Ubuntu doesn't recognize my user user/sudo password anymore, and I can't use sudo
I was trying to use sudo to run the command sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev when I realized that Ubuntu didn't recognize my password anymore. There is no way that I could have been typing it wrong, ...
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Three problems with Ubuntu 20.04 under Windows WSL
When using 'gcc' -Os option not accepted
sleep command produces sleep: cannot read realtime clock
Can no longer perform:
sudo cat XXX >> YYY
Results in Permission denied where XXX and YYY ...
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E: Unable to locate package update [duplicate]
When I run sudo apt-get install update && sudo apt-get install upgrade, I am getting these errors:
E: Unable to locate package update
E: Unable to locate package upgrade
When I try to run ...
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In 20.04 “sudo -s” no longer utilizes user's “.config/*” files? [duplicate]
I have an htop config in /etc/skel/.config/htop/htoprc copied to all new user home directories. When I run htop as a regular user I see the expected settings. However under 18.04 if I ran sudo -s ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 beta shows error on sudo apt update [duplicate]
I am currently using Ubuntu 20.04 beta and I get this error on sudo apt update
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file.
N: ...
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Broken sudoers file [duplicate]
I accidentally broke my sudoers file. I added one line in order to enable all permissions to an app, so I don't need to use sudo every time if I run that app. Now, I can't use sudo and I get this ...
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how to build a “sudo” starter/shortcut on desktop
on this siite >How do I edit the /etc/hosts file? i would ask my question but i dont have permission. strange, because now i have to open a new question, why ?
thats was not the question.
i try to ...
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Is it possible to un-sudo apps that have been run with sudo? [closed]
I heard that its not ok to run stuff always with sudo, because its same like running stuff as administrator on other os. Is it possible to revert it and un-sudo it so it dont have root access?
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sudo hangs after upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04
I am experiencing a weird issue after upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 over the weekend. Almost every time I execute a sudo command on the terminal it takes upwards of 2 minutes to complete, sometimes as ...
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Run debug with sudo permission using qt creator
I want to debug my app at terminal with sudo permission.
I tried to change the terminal settings to /usr/bin/xterm -e sudo and /usr/bin/gnome-terminal -x sudo, but it is just open empty terminal and ...
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How to fix this error? Err:5 http://www.getdeb.net/ubuntu wily-getdeb InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 143.95.32.90 80]
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease ...
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How to take the /usr/bin permissions to the root?
I did some fault command:
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/bin/
After that whenever I try to run sudo command I got this following message:
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the ...
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opt premission error
am using Ubuntu Server 20.04 and I'm having permission issue while running a script.
Steps taken:
cd /opt/
sudo git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap.git A
sudo ln -s /opt/A/...
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User in sudo group, but still being asked for password [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my home server. I have just one user which I want to be able to use sudo, but I can't get it to work. I already ran sudo usermod -aG sudo rlommers.
the output of id ...
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Why No software install in Ubuntu 19.04? [duplicate]
Basically I done update my ubuntu from 18.04 to in 19.04 last month.Now problem is when I install any software getting me error.
for example when I try to update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get ...
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Skipping acquire of configured file in ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I have recently updated to Ubuntu 20.04 and I am a bit fresh user for ubuntu. after installing postgresql 12 I ran sudo apt-get update it says
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/...
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Increase sudo timeout from within a bash script
I have a bash script that installs a lot of software. The whole process takes around 1h therefore I would like to increase the sudo timeout variable. I see it is possible as described here: Increase ...
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add an entry to the sudoers file [duplicate]
I have a user called 'jose' in a remote server and this user has full sudo access, but we were not provided with the root password of this remote server since the 'jose' user has the full sudo access. ...
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My user was deleted from sudo group
I think I made a big mistake.
I did usermod -aG docker $USER to run docker without sudo.
After run above command, my account status like below
joont@joont-ununtu:~$ id
uid=1000(joont) gid=1000(...
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is there a way to know original user after sudo [duplicate]
for example more the one user has access to sudo command
after I run sudo ./somthing.bash, can bash know the original user that called sudo?
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Why id, id $USER is different?
I added my account to docker group.
joont@joont-ubuntu:~$ sudo gpasswd -a joont docker
and I typed id to check my account was added.
joont@joont-ununtu:~$ id
uid=1000(joont) gid=1000(joont) ...
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Skype crashes when I run it as root user
In Ubuntu 18.04 on a Lenovo Thinkstation P330, Skype just crashes some seconds after start and writes a crash log that starts with:
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 20 23:40:53 ...
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apt update error after installing python3.8 in ubuntu
I am getting the following error when I run sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://...
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How do I change back /etc folder owner to root:root?
Yesterday I accidentally changed the owner of /etc folder group using this command:
sudo chown -R pts:apache /etc
I did this to upload a file from my end. Later when I tried to change it back to ...
