General :: Use The Command "sudo Su Root" From User Besides Ubuntu?

Mar 17, 2011

Why can't you use the command "sudo su root" from a user besides Ubuntu?

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Ubuntu :: Cannot Use 'sudo' Command Either With Root Or User Passwords

Apr 19, 2010

I was wondering if someone had a logical reason and therefore complete, hopefully that makes total sense, for why when I install Ubuntu I cannot use the 'sudo' command either with root or user passwords. Even if I try to edit the permissions for sudoers, I still recieve an error message that says access is denied and so as the root user on my pc I don't understand why I can't put my name in the sudoers file or use the sudo command with the correct password.

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General :: Sudo Cd /root Gives Sudo - Cd - Command Not Found

Jan 6, 2011

Kernel 2.6.21.5, Slackware 12.0

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On the other hand

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So, I do not understand why the notification "sudo: cd: command not found", considering cd is a bash built-in command.

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General :: Difference Between Sudo And Root User?

Feb 8, 2010

Can a sudo user do everything what a root user can do? I read sometimes expert say "You should run it as root rather than sudo user".

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General :: Execute Root Command Without Sudo?

Jan 24, 2010

On my ubuntu I have a command pm-suspend, which puts the computer to sleep. It has to be run with sudo. Since it is inconvenient to be forced to type the password every time I want my computer to sleep, I thought maybe there's a way around it. Naively I thought that if I'd create a script as root, that invokes pm-suspend, and then let anyone execute that script, I could run that script as my own user and then that script would be considered run by root and hence be allowed to run pm-suspend. Obviously that didn't work. The root-check procedure in pm-suspend still found out that the original executor was someone different from root.

Still I think something similar (although slightly more elaborate) should work.I'm thinking about the process that allows the user to mount hard drives for example. Normally root is required, but it is somehow bypassed by the gnome utility mounting.

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General :: Sudo For Www User To Run Root Shell Script Via Browser?

Sep 7, 2010

I need sudo for www (apache) user to run a shell script('ip.sh' contains iptables rules) from cgi-bin directory via browser using a per script. I edit sudoers( www ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL ),but when run the bellow command that's with err:

# sudo -u www sh /srv/www/cgi-bin/ip.sh

iptables v1.4.4: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Permission denied (you must be root) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. And:

# ls -al ip.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 243 Sep 7 14:18 ip.sh

I edit sudoers so

'www ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /srv/www/cgi-bin/ip.sh,/usr/sbin/iptables' too. but it doesn't work too. how can I execute this script via browser ?

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General :: Sudo Command Occasionally Asks For Root Password?

Sep 9, 2010

In Ubuntu 10.04, I logged in as user1 and when I open a new terminal and issue any command it is asking password.user@ubun-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig[sudo] password for user: It is asking for password only for first time.From the next command onwards it is not asking.Can some one please tell me if it is possible to issue ONLY ONE COMMAND, in which even if the password request comes, it will automatically fill the password.Just like "ps -elf | grep NetworkManager". I am expecting any combination of commands in a single line, so that password is filled automatically IF PASSWORD IS ASKED. If password is not asked, the command must be executed.

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General :: Automate Sudo Su - User Command From A Script?

Feb 9, 2011

i want to automate sudo su - user command from a script...it will then ask for a password...how do i automate this?

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Ubuntu :: Become A Root User Without Using Sudo?

Nov 6, 2010

How to become a root user without using sudo?So,that i can become super user to edit configuration files in etc directory.

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Ubuntu :: Get Root User Access Without Using Sudo?

Apr 23, 2010

It's been a few years since I last installed Ubuntu. I searched the forums and can't seem to find the answer. I want to be able to do a "su root" and have root access. I know Ubuntu wants you to do the sudo command, and I know you can really mess things up being root. I know I got this to work before. What do I need to do?

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General :: Run A Command Under Root As Another User?

Jan 8, 2010

So, i've a little question. I have a Linux Red Hat 5.1 System wich has a programm that needs to be started as a user -> usera .When i reboot the server, how can i make it possible to run a command in the shell as usera user?Someone told me, that this is not possible to make an autostart entry because this works only with the root account?!What i want its simple.- Command -> startprg need's to be started as user usera automatically after an automated reboot of the red hat linux

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Ubuntu :: Can't Sudo From Desktop User After Adding Root

Feb 22, 2011

I recently re-installed my U10.04 and this time around, I added a root user and brought the permission levels of my default user to "Desktop User" as well as elevate the root permissions as explained elsewhere in these forums. Everything went fine until I wanted to "sudo" something from the Desktop User account terminal. I use Skype a lot and preferred to use the repos to get it loaded. Into synaptic where it asked me for the password. I entered the password and I was rejected. Ok, maybe I typed it in wrong. Tried again. The third time I checked in an editor to make sure I wasn't in all-caps. Third time OUT!

Switched user to root and there were no problems. Enabled the partner repos, installed Skype, as well as all the other stuff I use to run my home office. I have missed something, I know I have - perhaps a setting somewhere in the user permissions. I don't want to have to switch user every time I have to make changes to the system. Alternatively, if it's better practise to just leave my system as it is for security purposes I'm not running a server, but I'd like to have my system as secure as reasonably possible without elevating my problem to "paranoid security" level.......

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Fedora :: Sudo Running As Root Instead Of Specified User?

Jan 25, 2010

I have a weird question about the sudoers file. Currently, I am running "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8)".

I edited the sudoers file (via visudo) and added the following:

User_Alias RPTS2 = vtmtest

RPTS2 xxxxx = (jboss) /oracle/app/oracle/apps/rptsd/deploy-jboss/deploy_rpts_jboss.sh

The user (vtmtest) issues the following command

sudo /oracle/app/oracle/apps/rptsd/deploy-jboss/deploy_rpts_jboss.sh

and gets this message:

user vtmtest is not allowed to execute '/oracle/app/oracle/apps/rptsd/deploy-jboss/deploy_rpts_jboss.sh' as root on xxxxx

When I look at the log, I see the following:

Jan 25 14:17:57 xxxxx sudo: vtmtest : command not allowed ; TTY=pts/12 ; PWD=/export/home/vtmtest ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/oracle/app/oracle/apps/rptsd/deploy-jboss/deploy_rpts_jboss.sh

1. Why does sudo try to run as the root user, when I have specified in the command to run as jboss?

2. Do I need to specify anything else so that this command can run as the "jboss" user and not "root"?

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Fedora :: User Uses Root Password With Sudo

Sep 20, 2010

I want to use root password instead of adding my user to the list of sudoers,In Arch wiki ander Root password:Users can configure sudo to ask for the root password instead of the user password by adding "rootpw" to the Defaults line in /etc/sudoers: but that did not work for me. it asks for root password.Why do I want to do that:
1. I want to do that, I like sudo more than su -c 'some_command'.
2. sudo enables bash completion, su -c does not.
3. I don't want to add my user to sudoers list.

I found many users Suggesting alternatives and lowering the important of my need for this, when I asked this question in anther please.

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Security :: Sudo Non-user/non-root Password?

Feb 19, 2010

Stumped on this one. I'm trying to set up limited sudo authority on a desktop with some sensitive user data, and as an extra precaution I wanted to configure sudo to use a password other than the user's or the root's. I'm not sure how to do this. From the manual, we have a few options, such as "runaspw" or "targetpw", but none seem quite what I'm looking for.For instance, "runaspw" could be used if I created a user for nothing other than sudo(ing) purposes, but it requires you set "runas_default", which means that said user would have to have authority to execute said commands in the first place. This is workable, but seems like a lot of extra configuration for each specific command that I want to run, as well as creating some issues with simply commands such as "shutdown" or "reboot". Also, "targetpw" can be used in conjunction with a sudo(ing)-only user if I set an alias, but, again, this isn't quite what I am looking for.

Ultimately, what I am really concerned about in this situation are keystroke loggers, so I would prefer to avoid repeated entering the user or root password when performing administrative tasks. Also, I would prefer not having to create a sudo(ing)-only user as mentioned above to prevent a comprimised password resulting in an attacker being able to log into my system.

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Software :: Sudo Is Not Switching To Root, Running As Same User Instead?

May 15, 2011

Take a simple requires-root option, such as:

Code:
[Leo@chessman ~]$ cat /etc/shadow
cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied

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Ubuntu :: Cant Remember Sudo Command To Enable Root?

Jul 2, 2010

I have done this before and its driving me insane, i just cant remember what command it was and google isnt revealing anything either.i usually type:"sudo command" and it asks my password which is ok, but i have a bunch of commands to issue as root and dont want to have to type sudo each timethis is what I want to see:

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General :: Root User Using Freshclam Command Cannot Write To Directory?

Jun 27, 2010

When I log on a root and attempt to issue the command Freshclam to upgrade the virus definitions it attempts or create a new file with a definition name. I get a message stating that the directory isnt writable. The user and group access rights are as follows:

USER = read, write, execute
Group = read, write, execute
All= read, execute.

The only way I can get around this is by applying a 777 which would be read, write and execute for all. Now, I have a group define with several user ids in it including Root.How do I connect the group with the directory/file so I dont have to apply a 777 access right to group users could issue the Freshclam command.

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Ubuntu :: Add User Permission To Use Sudo In Command Line?

Oct 20, 2010

I have a problem about user permission, I just destroy my user...So, I create a new one. But I can't have the permission to use "sudo" or to install program... So, I cannot do a lot of thing in my computer. The logical solution is to boot in failsafe mode and access to the root terminal, but, I don't know how to change the permission to allow me to use sudo.

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Programming :: Run A User-defined Command Without Sudo ?

Jan 24, 2011

I wrote a shell script and was able to compile it using SHC. after that i copied it to the /bin folder and tried running it as a normal user, but i keep getting the error " operation not permitted killed "

I tried changing the permissions. but it doesn't work. it only works with sudo. there must be another way. otherwise it won't be linux right?

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Ubuntu :: Give A User Sudo Privilege From Command Line?

Mar 14, 2011

I adjusted some settings in the desktop settings folder in KDE. I had only one user account on the machine. Next time I rebooted I could not log into KDE (it kept bombing out). I had to log into the console. Finally I managed to create a new account with useradd but this user cannot sudo

My problem is that my home directory is encrypted, so I need a new user with sudo privileges to delete all the kde files and folders in my original users home directory so that I can start with a new KDE setup (which won�t be a bad thing since I tinkered a lot).

How can I add sudo privileges to the new account (I presume I can do it by logging in with my sudo account in a terminal login?

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General :: Disable - Non-root Shell Command To Find If A User Account Is Enabled Or Not?

Aug 10, 2011

Is there a non-root shell command that can tell me if a user's account is disabled or not? note that there is a fine distinction between LOCKING and DISABLED:

LOCKING is where you prepend ! or * or !! to the password field of the /etc/passwd file. On Linux systems that shadow the passwords, this marker flag may be placed in /etc/shadow instead of /etc/passwd. Password locking can be done (at a shell prompt) via password -l username (as root) to lock the account of username, and the use of the option -u will unlock it.

DISABLING an account is done by setting the expiration time of the user account to some point in the past. This can be done with chage -E 0 username, which sets the expiration date to 0 days after the Unix epoch. Setting it to -1 will disable the use of the expiration date.

The effect of locking to to prevent the login process from using a supplied password to hash correctly against the saved hash (by virtue of the fact that the pre-pended marker character(s) are not valid output character(s) for the hash, thus no possible input can ever be used to generate a hash that would match it). The effect of disabling is to prevent any process from using an account because the expiration date of the account has already passed.For my situation, the use of locking is not sufficient because a user might still be able to login, e.g. using ssh authentication tokens, and processes under that user can still spawn other processes. Thus, we have accounts that are enabled or disabled, not just locked. We already know how to disable and enable the account - it requires root access and the use of chage, as shown above.To repeat my question: is there a shell command which can be run without root privileges which can output the status of this account expiration info for a given user? this is intended for use on a Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 system.The output is being returned to a java process which can then parse the output as needed, or make use of the return code.

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Red Hat :: Setup User's PATH Env When Sudo Command In RHEL5 ?

Dec 16, 2008

In RHEL5, the PATH of root is /sbin and /usr/sbin...., the PATH of common user has not /sbin or /usr/sbin, how to give the /sbin and /usr/sbin to a common user when he run command which sudo?

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General :: CentOS / Sudo Doesn't Accept Root Password But Logging In As Root Works

Apr 9, 2010

I was trying to edit a file requiring root permissions, so I used sudo. I typed the root password and it failed. This happened three times, and the process was ended. I then logged in as root (su) and was able to navigate to the file and make changes as root. Am I missing something? How would I edit the sudoers file such that this password would work? Or is there another way to log in to the sudo group to make these changes? How do I set sudo passwords?

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Ubuntu :: The "sudo Cp -r" Command Set The Destination Folder To Only Root Access?

Feb 27, 2010

Before, the "sudo cp -r" command automatically set the permissions to make the directory / files can be accessed by others.

But, after I reinstall Ubuntu 9.10 and apply all the latest updates, "sudo cp -r" command set the files to be accessible by root only.

After I copy the codecs directory to /usr/lib by using the above command, not only I cannot view the files inside, SMPlayer and other player software cannot access the directory.

To fix this, I have to run the chmod command to change the permissions.

Does anyone face this problem? Was it caused by the installation of latest updates?

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Ubuntu :: Get Root Script To Run A Command As Normal User?

Jun 8, 2010

Because I have a flaky wireless device, I occasionally get a hung connection and this script gets things running again in just a few seconds except obviously the boldfaced item, as it still tries to run in the root directory and gives errors:

Configuration file "/root/.kde/share/config/knetworkmanagerrc" not writable.
Please contact your system administrator.

So I am not sure how to get knetworkmanager to run as me, the user ubuntu in the /home/ubuntu directory

#!/bin/bash
service network-manager stop
sleep 1
killall -9 knetworkmanager

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Ubuntu :: What The Diffent - Root User And Susdo In Command Line

Jan 4, 2010

Why we have to log in as root user some times while we can use sudo in command line ,is it diffrent , does sudo dont have all access and all permessions? i am really lost , i know little of alot of things in ubuntu ,but still missong alot of circles to make the complate picture.

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Debian :: Install Httperf Using The Following Command As Root User?

May 25, 2011

I am a Fedora user and have recently shifted to Debian.I tried to install httperf using the following command as root user:apt-get install httperfbut apt-get cannot locate the package:

root@D6-VM:/home/saad# apt-get install httperf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree

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General :: Did Not Find Any Option For Root Password For Root User In Ubuntu 9.10?

Mar 2, 2010

i used opensuse 11.1 ...there is option for root user to create password for root...but for ubuntu i did not find anything like that...so how can i create root password....or how can i use root

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General :: Root Logins Are Not Allowed \ When Try To Login As Root, After Logging Out As User, It Does Not Allow?

Dec 2, 2010

i just installed linux mandriva 2009. i set password for root and created a user account. when i try to login as root, after logging out as user, it does not allow me and gives the error "root logins are not allowed". even it does not show the root account. if i try to go to root from konsole terminal using su root, it allows to enter as a root but when i try to start the GUI with startx it gives error.not sure what to do and why i can't see my account in GUI mode

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