I’m currently working on a bash script that installs and sets up various programs on a stock Linux system (currently, Ubuntu). Because it installs programs and copies a number of files to various folders that require elevated privileges, I’ve already done the standard “I need elevated privileges”-and-exit.
I was thinking that it might be advantageous to have a user with permissions higher than the root user.
A lot of the time I edit a file with nano, try to save and get a permission error because I forgot to run it as sudo. Is there some quick way I can become sudo without having to re-open and re-edit the file?
I was under the impression that any sort of call to mount requires root privileges. But recently I was told “You should instead create appropriate entries in /etc/fstab so that the filesystems can be mounted by unprivileged users”… which is counter to my experience using mount. Anytime I have used mount I have needed to … Read more
How do I specify command arguments in sudoers? As a background, aws command is actually a gateway to a whole bunch of sub-systems and I want to restrict the user to only run aws s3 cp ...any other args...
I understand that if you want to modify who can use sudo and what they can do with it that you should use visudo. I know I’m not supposed to directly modify the /etc/sudoers file myself.
I have a linux (debian based) server which is configured to allow SSH session to the user ‘admin’, but not the user ‘root’. Both these accounts are linked somehow because they share the same password.
Along side the question “Username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported” that explained the programical aspects of the error and suggested some workarounds, I want to know: what does this error mean?
After much frustrating head-brick-wall contact, I’ve discovered this: $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/steve/bin $ sudo bash # echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin but $ sudo bash -c 'echo $PATH' /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin $ sudo bash -Ec 'echo $PATH' /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin I gather from another post that the sudo path is read from /etc/sudoers — but why? Does setting $PATH in /root/.profile … Read more
If I do the following: