Questions tagged [sudoers]
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Sudoers NOPASSWD for single executable but allowing others
Operating System: Arch Linux
Linux version: 4.16.11
Sudo version: 1.8.23
What I need:
be able to execute any executable with a sudo with a password prompt
be able to execute one executable, /home/...
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sudo command trying to search for hostname
Recently, I have changed the sudoers file and the hostname through /etc/hostname. After changing this files, my sudo command is taking a lot of time. Also, it says sudo unable to resolve host kaagini(...
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a safer no password sudo?
Ok, here's my problem - Please don't yell at me for being insecure! :) This is on my host machine. I'm the only one using it so it's fairly safe, but I have a very complex password that is hard to ...
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How to check if I have sudo access?
I recently got into trouble because of this.
$sudo vim /etc/motd
[sudo] password for bruce:
bruce is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Is there a way to check if I have ...
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How to allow user to preserve environment with sudo?
I'm running into the following error trying to allow some environment variables to pass through to the new environment when running sudo:
sudo: sorry, you are not allowed to preserve the environment
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What do the "ALL"s in the line " %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL " in Ubuntu's /etc/sudoers file stand for?
What does each ALL mean? I understand that the whole line indicates that the admin group members get admininstartive privileges, but would like to know more info about the position of the ALLS and if ...
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sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
I had already asked this question in Stack Overflow, but I've been asked to post it here. So doing the same.
I ran this command using my java program-
sudo -u <username> -S pwd
I got this ...
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Broken sudo on amazon web services ec2 linux centOS
So I had no idea of the dangers of messing with the /etc/sudoers file, and was just trying to make a simple change in there. However, I seem to have put something with incorrect syntax in there, ...
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Modify sudoers to bypass password requirements but it's not taking effect
I need to run a script with sudo without entering my password. I'm editing /etc/sudoers (using sudo visudo) and on the last line, I'm adding:
MY-USER-NAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
I just want to make ...
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sudo for just one command IN lost+found folder, not more
I have this script
# check lost+found folders
function chklnf {
#DOC echo "chklnf - list any files in lost+found folders on mounted devices"
x="lost+found/"
if [ "$EUID" != 0 ] ;then
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