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~/bin$ cat setbrightness id echo $1 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness ~/bin$ whoami rag ~/bin$ sudo -l Matching Defaults entries for rag on this host: env_reset, mail_badpass, ...
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I have an /etc/sudoers with the following: glens ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/service php5-fpm glens ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL And I'm trying to run the command: sudo /usr/sbin/service php5-fpm restart ...
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I want to run any program without asking root password. Because I'm the only person who use the system. So I googled and edited /etc/sudoers. What I did: # chmod 640 /etc/sudoers # vim /etc/sudoers ...
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Possible Duplicate: How to run a specific program as root without a password prompt? I installed fedora 15. I use sudo visudo to modify sudoers file and add the following line: USERNAME ALL=(ALL)...
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Is it possible to define a rule in sudoers to allow one user to run one well defined command as root, without password or other authentication except being the right user? Are there alternatives to ...
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I'm trying to set my local computer (which has Linux Mint 13 Maya) so that I can chmod & chown any file with my regular max user account. Following this page, https://askubuntu.com/questions/...
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my sudoers file: cat /etc/sudoers ... USERHERE ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/cp /home/USERHERE/foo/in.csv /home/anotheruser/in.csv ... it looks OK too: USERHERE@notebook:~/foo$ sudo -l Matching Defaults ...
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I'm in Ubuntu 18.04LTS and I want to change the sudoers file to execute sudo shutdown -h now without the need of password (for my_username). The steps I take were: With my user my_username open ...
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I created a user named shut so that whenever one logs in using that username the machine would shut down. For that I placed the below command in the end of the .profile. exec sudo shutdown -h now But ...
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I've got the following entry in /etc/sudoers to allow me to run any command after asking for my password %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL I also want to run a specific command with no password as part of a ...
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I want to make sudo configuration such that one user 'test' should have access to all commands,all hosts like root. But for specific commands like 'ls /root' password should not get promted. I'hv ...
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Is it possible to write a script that run su or sudo command without typing password?. I googled and its said that su doesn't read password from buffer. So is there any solution?
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I want to be able to run the pm-suspend and pacman without sudo to ask me for a password for all users in the group sudo. I added the following line to my /etc/sudoers configuration following this QA:...
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I'm trying to write a shell script so that when I reinstall my Ubuntu again. I could just run script and retain all the packages. And I'm planning to pass password in form of argument. My question ...
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Put simply, Whenever somebody logs onto the family computer that I manage, I get bugged about updates and "could you install x thing that I saw in the store" and such. How would I enable all users to ...
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