I am trying to enable passwordless sudo for updating yum on a RHEL box. I have the following line in sudo visudo. myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/yum update After doing this under myuser I am still unable to update yum without giving my sudo password. /usr/bin/env sudo yum -y update sudo yum -y update The reason … Read more
My script, when executed as root, uses the sudo without passwd, and that is fine. Sometimes however, I must execute that script as an ordinary user, which “switches” to itself by that sudo command. I must omit the passwd procedure in this case also. Currently I use the default (almost empty) sudoers file. I’d like … Read more
This question already has answers here: Editing sudoers file to restrict a user’s commands (9 answers) Closed 7 years ago. Hello and thanks for helping me in this question. I just have in /ets/sudoers something like this: # User Aliases User_Alias CLIENT = jhonny CLIENT myserver = ALL. !ADMIN_CMD,!SU I just want deny to jhonny … Read more
There is a requirement I got. My sudo users (for which their entry in sudoers file) should be able to access other user’s account say Oracle using following command: sudo su – Oracle The above should work with giving current users password. But if the same user is firing the following command: sudo su – … Read more
This question already has answers here: Why is “chmod -R 777 /” destructive? (2 answers) Closed 5 years ago. I am using a cloud server of godaddy & I don’t have root password. My master user has root access through sudo. I was trying to create another user and set permission for a specific directory. … Read more
I’m looking to create a script that logs into a machine and pulls back files to a NAS server. The files will be put into a compressed file as it downloads. Because the script will be looking to download files with varying owners and permissions, it will need to run as root to make sure … Read more
I have a script which opens terminal windows and sends commands to them. Some of these had to run as root so I would send them this command sudo sh -c ‘do_stuff && bash’ This would run some initial commands and then drop into an interactive shell. In my environment, the terminal programs themselves cannot … Read more
I have a problem with my Antergos installation, when I try to sudo a command it won’t ask root password: Also Ctrl + C won’t stop the command. Can’t connect to WiFi (Network manager is not running and unpossible to start it). I don’t know what to do. Thank you in advance! Answer Have you … Read more
how to access file by visudo from non root user , or other option for example when we change user to hdfs and from user hdfs we want to print the file – file.cfg we get Permission denied how to configure the visudo in order to get read access from user – hdfs ( and … Read more
I have a Debian-based system (most likely an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) with a user, say user, that executes an application (as a daemon). The system is not exposed to the Internet with a public IP address. This application needs to reboot, stop processes (using killall) and execute network commands using nmcli. It does this by … Read more
