Affected sudo versions are 1.8.0 through 1.8.3p1. For me, 'sudo -v' and 'sudo -l' did not work in a script because sometimes interactive (asking me for a password, like mentioned above). Many Linux command is available to send email from the command line or by using a bash script. In this case, the user (for example aaronk) who will switch to another user account (for example postgres) should be in the sudoers file or in the sudo group to be able to invoke the sudo command. January 12, 2011 A potential security issue exists in the handling of sudo's -g command line option when -u is not specified. Just type 10 to read email message # 10. psql is prompting password every time it runs. HOWEVER - configuring sudo to allow a user to run su allows them to become any user. gsudo - a sudo for Windows. export SSHPASS='my_pass_here' Save the file and exit, then run the command ⦠I would suggest creating a script for your command, setting the script permissions to 700 and owned by root, then configuring sudo to allow a user to run that single script. It allows to run commands with elevated permissions, or to elevate the current shell, in the current console window or a new one. Affected sudo versions are ⦠But any email sending command will not work if no SMTP server is set up properly in the system. The current message is initially the first message (numbered 1) and can be printed using the print command which can be abbreviated p. Just press p.The user can move among the messages much as he moves between lines in ed, with the commands + and -moving backwards and forwards, and simple numbers. Note: In the example above, SSHPASS environment variable is for temporary purpose only and will be removed during reboot.. To permanently set the SSHPASS environment variable, open the /etc/profile file and type the export statement at the beginning of the file:. If you want to avoid the password, you can configure sudo to allow that. The flaw may allow a user to run commands as root without being prompted for a password. 'sudo -n -l' did also not work, it gave the exit code '1' although I have sudo permissions, because of the missing password. sshpass â Hide Password in Prompt. Because REINDEX locks tables, I should use sleep between each REINDEX. Just prepend gsudo (or the sudo alias) to your command and it will run elevated. There is also two limitations: I can not create a user on database with no password. I have written the following code: set timeout 30 /usr/bin/ssh -p 8484 root@172.31.72.103 expect { "root@172.31.72.103's password" { send "password\r" } } Sudo is the most common command on Unix-like operating systems to run a specific command as root (the system administrator). $ sudo visudo Then add the following configuration below the line â%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALLâ as shown in the following screenshot. But extending the command to: After viewing a message the user can ⦠â.bashrcâ is a shell script that Bash shell runs whenever it is started interactively. The problem is I can not run this script in standalone mode. I tried writing a shell script which can do automatic login into a ssh server using password which is mentioned in the script. Is ⦠As a result, running a script that calls reboot(8) or shutdown(8) via sudo may cause the system to end up in this undefined state unless the reboot(8) or shutdown(8) are run using the exec() family of functions instead of system() (which interposes a shell between the command and the calling process). gsudo is a sudo equivalent for Windows, with a similar user-experience as the original *nix sudo. The purpose of a .bashrc file is to provide a place where you can set up variables, functions and aliases, define our prompt and define other settings that we want to â¦