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Unable to use sudo su - command
I am new in ubuntu, i am trying to run following command
sudo su -
Bu i am getting following message
sudo: unable to open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, ...
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1answer
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Why does redirection fail when passing through ssh, sudo and sh?
After reading this question, I know that I have to do
sudo sh -c 'ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out'
to avoid the "Permission denied" error.
But when I do
ssh hostname sudo sh -c 'ls -hal /root/ ...
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how to correct sudo permission
I'm running AWS EC2 Micro instance and had issues getting permission to the root access with EC2-user.
Followed a tutorial online and ran the following commands:
sudo chgrp ec2-user /etc
sudo chmod ...
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Execute a command with root permissions as normal user
I want to execute a command as if I am my normal user, but I want to have root certain permissions. In particular, I have created a phyiscal VirtualBox drive that I want to use as a normal user.
I ...
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2answers
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Does sudo really make you root for a little while?
On Linux, in what kind of situations, if any, running a command as a non-root to access a file/folder or create/delete a file/folder using sudo may result in "permission denied"
while running the same ...
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Lost permission to use sudo commands
I changed /etc folder permission to 711.
After doing that, I lost the permission to use sudo commands. Any way to change the folder permissions back?
What I have tried so far:
1) use su -, ...
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1answer
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Playing sound on server using php
I want to play a sound file on my server using PHP. The PHP script is called by Apache and runs under the user 'nobody', which has by default no access to the speakers. So I created a new user ...
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1answer
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Permission denied in Amazon EC2 while accessing tomcat7 folder
I am trying to copy a log file from a Amazon EC2 instance to my local machine (Windows 7). I am using WinSCP438 which is able to connect to the remote server i.e Amazon EC2 instance. I am trying to ...
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2answers
397 views
How do you create a user with read and write access to another user's home directory
I am new to Linux and need some help how I can create a user with some special rights.
I have read a few articles and "how Linux permissions work" but have not yet understood how it works in ...
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2answers
259 views
Have sudo create files under your own user id?
If I wanted to do something like
sudo fdisk -l > test.txt
but I wanted test.txt to be under my own user ID (and not root) without having to chown it afterwards, is there a way to do this?
...
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1answer
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Unix User Group or Sudo/Su
I am in a situation where I have to chose between unix user groups or sudo to tackle
an issue.
To give some background,
A Linux app is installed as user X. The installation copies some scripts and ...
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1answer
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Is there a good way to give ec2-user admin credentials on EC2? I'm sudoing too often
Disclaimer:
I'm only decent with EC2 and Unix commands / Linux administration.
Question:
How do you give ec2-user the same permissions as root? I'm tired of sudoing.
Why?
I found out that you have ...
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2answers
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“no valid sudoers sources found, quitting” error while chmodding /var/www
I'm new to Ubuntu and just installed LAMP. I'm trying to paste files into the /var/www/ directory so i can test my PHP projects, but I can't.
I have searched on the web and all I read is: "type sudo ...
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0answers
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How can I make it easier to move files from an underprivileged (user) account to a root directory in linux?
I'm sure it's been asked and answered many times, but I can't seem to find an answer. Maybe this question will link someone else to the right answer.
Here's the problem:
~$ sudo ls
ls: ...
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2answers
865 views
Permissions: Why do I always have to type 'sudo' before every command?
I'm editing theme files in a wordpress site owned by www-data:www-data as my main user 'oma'. Every time I create a file or edit one, I have to use the sudo command and it gets created as root:root. ...
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1answer
560 views
Secured bash history usage
I know all commands user sends to server are automatically logged into ~/.bash_history
I want to give access to my PC to my colleague (I've already gave hime some limited access to use sudo via ...
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5answers
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sudo chmod -R 777 /
sudo chmod -R 777 /
I did this. It was a mistake. Is there any way to undo it?
Basically it's messed up more things than I can list. I don't have time-machine enabled on my mac.
2
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1answer
893 views
sudo midnight commander
I sometimes start midnight commander as superuser with the command sudo mc to do some operations on the current working directory as superuser.
But this results in ~/.mc having the wrong ...
1
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1answer
510 views
Using pscp and getting permission denied
I'm using pscp to transfer files to a virtual ubuntu server using this command:
pscp test.php user@server:/var/www/test.php
and I get the error permission denied. If I try to transfer to the ...
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2answers
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need to run chgrp as root on ubuntu
I need git user to run
chgrp -R www-data linode.git/
chmod -R 770 linode.git/
as root. Only these two commands and only for git user. How can I do that?
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1answer
892 views
How can I use sed in /etc/apache2/sites-available?
I'm attempting to write a script that uses sed to copy the default file for apache and writes a new file, replacing /var/www ($DOC_ROOT below) with my own directory, $NEW_SITES_DIR. However, sed isn't ...
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1answer
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localhost in sudoers
There is no chance of an internal attack, so I would like to give sudo privileges to users at the local computer using sudoers. I tried these lines separately:
%admin localhost=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
...
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2answers
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fine-grained sudoers configuration (allowed commandline arguments)
is there a straight-forward way to allow a user to run (for example)
/usr/bin/pacman -S -u
as root, without allowing him to run
/usr/bin/pacman -S -u some_package
?
The line
user ALL=(root) ...
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3answers
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sudo equivalent configuration on Solaris 10
I am looking to configure on Solaris 10 to achieve the below:
user=jon
group=jtu
jon is owner of /opt/app
user=ken
group=jtu
ken is owner of /data
On Linux I have added the below line
%jtu ALL= ...
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2answers
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“username” is not in the sudoer list - how do I get back in there
I use Ubuntu 9.10
I changed my password. After I restarted my machine and tried to do sudo whatever...
I got
"username" is not in the sudoer list.
What should I do to get back in there?
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5answers
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How to reset folder permissions to their default in Ubuntu 9.10?
I recently typed the command
sudo chmod 777 -R /
after that some things like
sudo -i
are not working normally. So I am wondering if there is any way I could reset the folder permissions to their ...
2
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5answers
3k views
Problem with running a script at startup as root?
The main question:
Is there a way I can run 'completely' one of my script when ubuntu's desktop appears no matter if root , administrator, desktop user or an unprivileged user logged in?
What does ...
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5answers
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How do I tell sudo to write files with a umask of 0022?
I recently upgrading to Snow Leopard. I have noticed that some files written by MacPorts are installed with the wrong permission -- they are written with a umask of 0077. I think I have narrowed down ...
5
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3answers
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Logged in to vi, made changes, forgot to sudo first - now what
I made lengthy changes to a configuration file on a Ubuntu Linux computer with the vi editor. Unfortunately, I forgot to sudo first, so now I'm in the editor, but can't save my changes because of ...
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5answers
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Creating a group in trying not to use Sudo nor 777
How can you create a group such that I can use programs of another user in the PC in my user account without 777 permissions nor with sudo?
I created a new user by sudo adduser masi.
I need either to ...
