How to call shell script from php that requires SUDO?
Edit the sudoers file (with visudo) and add a rule that allows the web server user to run the command without a password. For example: www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/script
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sudo echo “something” >> /etc/privilegedFile doesn’t work [duplicate]
Use tee –append or tee -a. echo ‘deb blah … blah’ | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list Make sure to avoid quotes inside quotes. To avoid printing data back to the console, redirect the output to /dev/null. echo ‘deb blah … blah’ | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null Remember about the (-a/–append) flag! Just tee … Read more
How to pass the password to su/sudo/ssh without overriding the TTY?
For sudo there is a -S option for accepting the password from standard input. Here is the man entry: -S The -S (stdin) option causes sudo to read the password from the standard input instead of the terminal device. This will allow you to run a command like: echo myPassword | sudo -S ls /tmp … Read more
Getting “Permission Denied” when running pip as root on my Mac
Use a virtual environment: $ virtualenv myenv .. some output .. $ source myenv/bin/activate (myenv) $ pip install what-i-want You only use sudo or elevated permissions when you want to install stuff for the global, system-wide Python installation. It is best to use a virtual environment which isolates packages for you. That way you can … Read more
sudo in php exec()
It sounds like you need to set up passwordless sudo. Try: %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: osascript myscript.scpt Also comment out the following line (in /etc/sudoers via visudo), if it is there: Defaults requiretty
Why does sudo change the PATH? [closed]
This seemed to work for me sudo -i which takes on the non-sudo PATH
What are the risks of running ‘sudo pip’?
When you run pip with sudo, you run setup.py with sudo. In other words, you run arbitrary Python code from the Internet as root. If someone puts up a malicious project on PyPI and you install it, you give an attacker root access to your machine. Prior to some recent fixes to pip and PyPI, … Read more
How to fix ‘sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified’ error?
Granting the user to use that command without prompting for password should resolve the problem. First open a shell console and type: sudo visudo Then edit that file to add to the very end: username ALL = NOPASSWD: /fullpath/to/command, /fullpath/to/othercommand eg john ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/start, /sbin/stop will allow user john to sudo poweroff, … Read more
How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don’t have permission to write to? [closed]
Your command does not work because the redirection is performed by your shell which does not have the permission to write to /root/test.out. The redirection of the output is not performed by sudo. There are multiple solutions: Run a shell with sudo and give the command to it by using the -c option: sudo sh … Read more
How to keep environment variables when using sudo
First you need to export HTTP_PROXY. Second, you need to read man sudo carefully, and pay attention to the -E flag. This works: $ export HTTP_PROXY=foof $ sudo -E bash -c ‘echo $HTTP_PROXY’ Here is the quote from the man page: -E, –preserve-env Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to preserve their … Read more