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The sudo command is configured through a file located at `/etc/sudoers` or `/usr/local/etc/sudoers`

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How to run script as another user without password?

I have script.sh that must be run as user2. However, this script can only be run under user1 in my application. I would like the following command to run: su user2 -C script.sh but be able to run without password. I also want this to be very…
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Linux: 'Username' is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

After logging into ssh in a linux machine, I got this message: 'Username' is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. How can I resolve this? I'm connecting ssh to my virtual private server. I need to have sudoers privilegies.
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Ansible: create a user with sudo privileges

I have taken over a Ubuntu 14.04 server. It has a user called "deployer" (used with capistrano), and as such, it needs sudo privileges. With this setup, I can log into the server and do stuff like: workstation> ssh deployer@myserver myserver> sudo…
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Cannot create directory. Permission denied inside docker container

Can not create folder during image building with non root user added to sudoers group. Here is my Dockerfile: FROM ubuntu:16.04 RUN apt-get update && \ apt-get -y install sudo RUN adduser --disabled-password --gecos '' newuser \ && adduser…
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Exit/save edit to sudoers file? Putty SSH

Been following instructions for editing sudoers file, made changes but the instructions say to exit using ctrl+x - this just gives me a capital X and a caret. Have tried ctrl:x ctrl+Q Esc. Not using nano or any other gui (just putty terminal), the…
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File in /etc/sudoers.d file not being read by sudo

I want to add a user in the sudoers file and I don't want to touch the original /etc/sudoers file, so I added a new file under directory /etc/sudoers.d. The interesting thing is about the name of the newly added file. Initially, I named the file as…
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"/etc/sudoers is world writable" on Mac OS X Mavericks

Currently, I am working on an OSX Maverick, and I can't use sudo command in Terminal. My-Mac:~ phucnd$ sudo sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting. How can i fix it ?
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How to give sudo access to a bash script?

I have a bash script(chbr.sh) to change my display brightness from terminal as my brightness keys doesn't work. `sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=30` Now, every time I run that script it asks for password which I don't like. So, I googled a little and…
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how to make non root user as sudo user in docker alpine image?

I am trying build cassandra docker image using alpine based os. on the container run process i am getting permission related issue, as i am running as cassandra user. i am unable to run sudo and switch my user cassandra as sudo user. below is my…
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Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting

I was trying to run Meteor on my VPS and I was getting this error: Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting. Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting. Unexpected mongo exit code 100. Restarting. Can't start Mongo server. MongoDB had an…
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How to fix /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line number

I am new to Ubuntu. And as while editing anything in visual studio code, I had to enter password. so for that I tried to change in sudoers file but after that I am unable to find what happened and also getting error like below. I used the command to…
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How to execute multiple commands with sudo in script

Can we use heredocs to run multiple commands using sudo? I am facing an issue (need to pass password for every command) while running multiple commands: echo 'password'| sudo -S ls echo 'password'| sudo -S cat /var/log/abc.log Can anyone help me…
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How can I allow bash -c for sudoers (followed by multiple commands)?

I have this in /etc/sudoers: %wheel myhostname =NOPASSWD: /bin/bash -c "echo foo && echo bar", \ /bin/bash -c echo foo Executing sudo /bin/bash -c echo foo works without being prompted for a password. However, sudo…
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su pass password to script

I am trying to write a script that will run the following commands: sudo su runmqsc_result=`su -c "runmqsc QMGR < /home/rob/query_queue.txt" -m "mqm"` My issue however, is that these commands are run as part of a shell script, by user that is in…
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Net::SSH sudo command hangs after entering password

I've been trying to write a small library using Thor to help assist me in quick creating new projects and sites. I wrote this small method: def ssh(cmd) Net::SSH.start( server_ip, user, :port => port) do |session| session.exec cmd …
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