Questions tagged [sudo]
Used when executing commands as another user.
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sudo: command not found, despite path being set correctly
Recently, I've been unable to use the sudo command in terminal. Any command I try to give it, file I try to get it to run, etc, tells me sudo: [command or file]: command not found. If I try to run ...
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Why isn't sudo authentication in one terminal propagated to another terminal?
When I sudo followed by a password in one terminal and then sudo in another terminal, I have to enter my password again. I am pretty sure it wasn't always like this. If I recall correctly, you could ...
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Remove user's access to .config and Library folders
I used the following commands to give myself access to the .config folder in order to access Google Chrome's internal files.
sudo chown user ~user/.config
chmod 711 ~user/.config
That did not give me ...
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Create script that run command as admin ,but allow non sudo/admin user to execute it
I want to run below command
networksetup -setMTU en0 1280
but this requires admin credentials
networksetup -setMTU en0 1280
** Error: Command requires admin privileges.
I want to create a ...
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System admin password not working
I have a 2019 Macbook Pro, Ventura. Recently, I've noticed that my system password (I am the only user, and I checked in Users & Groups) doesn't work to change my Privacy and Security settings. I ...
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How to fix sudo when user is already in a group that is listed in sudoers file?
I am on MacOS Ventura 13.2. Since this update I cannot perform sudo anymore:
❯ sudo touch /test
Password:
est is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
It doesn't make sense, ...
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Admin account not in sudoers
On my MacBook (OS 12.6.1) I have a primary account and a secondary one, which is an admin. In the terminal, I can su into the secondary one. However, if I try to use sudo then, I see that the admin ...
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Change sudo prompt in macos
I am trying to change the default sudo prompt that is used in macos to match what I am used to in linux. I want to know that I am expected to put my sudo password and not some other password.
I tried ...
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sudo -E -s does not preserve ZDOTDIR
Running zsh on macOS Ventura
→ With
sudo --preserve-env -s the environment variable ZDOTDIR is not preserved but all the others are.
→ With sudo --preserve-env=ZDOTDIR -s the variable ZDOTDIR is ...
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Why some commands do NOT require sudo when logged in GUI?
I created a user called dummy.
I login using Terminal into dummy and try to put Mac to sleep using pmset sleepnow. It does NOT work: Sleep error 0xe00002c1; You must run this as root..
I log into ...
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Ansible: Accidentally changed admin user to standard user - no longer in sudoers file
I have been learning how to use Ansible to administer my machines lately. I ran a playbook that creates a new user named patrick on the target machine. This machine is a Macbook with user patrick ...
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How to run an R script from the terminal
I've spent over a week on this problem, been down so many rabbit holes, and I'm about to pull my hair out.
All I want to to is be able able to navigate to my folder in the terminal, run the command
./...
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How to fix "sudo" waiting a minute on macOS?
On my MacBook Air (macOS 12.5) I need to use the sudo command quite often. And I noticed that when I use sudo on the command line it sometimes takes a very long time before the prompt to enter the ...
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Accidentally moved my files with a sudo command to a non-existent directory. Now I can't find my files
On my mac, I tried moving all my .pdf files from my /Downloads directory to my documents directory but I made a typo. I used the following command:
sudo find Downloads -name "*.pdf" -exec mv ...
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I accidentally removed /etc. Now I cannot login or put it back
I deleted the /etc/ folder and it is now in Trash.
I cannot put it back as it needs permission, and when sudo asks for the password, I enter and it doesn't work (as everything seems was in that etc).
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Set my current user as root user
I just got my freshly repaired macbook back. On the old version of it, I had run a command to stop getting access denied when trying to install from the terminal without using sudo. I don't remember ...
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M1 Mac (Monterey 12.4) Touch ID is not working for sudo
I followed [this set of instructions] for adding Touch ID authentication to sudo, but it's not working. Almost all the post/questions I found on the internet was more or less same and also they were ...
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/etc/sudoers is world writable and unable to change permissions on macOS M1 [duplicate]
I’m developing a web application and I had a problem saving an uploaded photo to a specific file so it can be retrieved from the database. An error occurred that failed to open the file stream. I ...
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Touch ID window for sudo doesn't get focus when opened from iTerm
I enabled Touch ID for sudo using pam_tid.so, the problem is whenever I run a sudo command in iTerm, the Touch ID window opens but it is not focused, like this:
and holding my finger on the touch ...
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Renamed files to MD5 hashes, how to do so for one directory?
I used this command and ended up damaging several directories' worth of files, not system-critical files on macOS Monterey 12.2.1, MacBook Pro 13-inch 2020:
find . -type f -exec bash -c 'mv $1 "${...
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How to reach the /etc folder from cd /Macintosh/ HD?
I use Monterey macOS v12.3.
Do you know how can I find the /etc folder from the cd /Macintosh/ HD?
I corrupted my sudoers and I want to modify it from single-user mode, but I am not able to reach the ...
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sudo ownership and permission changed and shows `sudo: /usr/local/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set`
I made another admin account in my MacOS Monterey for my programming job.
Then I had to change ownership of Homebrew directories to make it work.
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/Homebrew/ /usr/...
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Running sudo with a specific shell
Suppose the default shell for root is sh, my default shell is zsh, but I want to run a command in csh with sudo. How?
According to man sudo, -l will give zsh (my shell).
-i can give me csh, but only ...
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Restore session (reopen windows) after a **CLI** shutdown on Big Sur
I'm automating some tasks, like brew upgrade then shutdown, or Duplicati backup (no Time Machine), wait for cloud sync then shutdown, but I can't seem to find a CLI command which WILL reopen my ...
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How can I enable File Sharing & Remote Login from a utility or script?
I would like to leave File Sharing and Remote Login off normally, but be able to remotely turn them on if and when I need them. The commands to do this are easily found online.
sudo launchctl load -w ...
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Screen-sharing and Touch ID
On macOS Monterey I would like to use sudo without password by using Touch ID while sharing my screen during a Zoom call.
I added auth sufficient pam_tid.so to /etc/pam.d/sudo and it works fine while ...
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rm /bin/date "operation not permitted"
I would like to sudo rm /bin/date but I get this message:
Password:
override rwxr-xr-x root/wheel restricted,compressed for /bin/date? y
rm: /bin/date: Operation not permitted
Please assume that I ...
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How can I delete the files in /System/Volumes/VM?
Just as an experiment/exercise, I tried deleting the swap files in /System/Volumes/VM but no matter what I did, it was prevented.
sudo rm - operation not permitted
sudo xattr - didn't return anything
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How to add an admin user to sudoers on Big Sur [duplicate]
I am running Big Sur on a MacBook Pro and am unable to run su or sudo in a terminal window despite being logged into an Admin (and Mobile) account. I always get the error: <username> is not in ...
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macOS keeps asking for root password in Terminal
Today, my mac mini keeps asking for root password every time I enter Terminal or open new terminal window.
Android Studio and other apps that have terminal access do the same and keep asking root ...
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Disable TouchId when resuming from suspend BUT leaving it enabled for sudo
I've recently switched my development setup to a new M2 Mac Book Air with Touch ID support. Right now I'm tailoring my laptop to my liking. I've added Touch Id as a supported PAM authentication method:...
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Sudo commands makes error which tells sudoer has missing "__chkstk_darwin" symbol
My problem on my macOS High Sierra is that recently none of sudo commands are working.
here is a sample,
Majids-MacBook-Pro:etc mjzarrin$ sudo vi x.txt
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not ...
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Avoid changes to /etc/pam.d/sudo across macOS updates?
I have a custom /etc/pam.d/sudo setup and I noticed that the file was always reset to default when macOS updates itself.
How do I prevent that from happening?
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sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, should be 0 not mounting for recovery [duplicate]
I edited my etc/sudoers file to try to disable the requirement for sudo password.
Now I can't run sudo commands in the terminal. I get the following error:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, ...
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Is setting a sudo time limit to 0 seconds still required for secure macOS operations?
I am used to set
Default timestamp_timeout=0
in /etc/sudoers via the visudo command when configuring a new macOS. The reason originally was that applications can start shell scripts and it used to be ...
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Should I enter this command in Terminal?
Background: A month or so ago I purchased an app from a developer with (what seemed to me to be) a decent reputation. The app did not work as expected, so I reached out to tech support, who got back ...
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Downloads from web browsers randomly bypass my downloads folder and go directly to my iCloud drive (desktop)
When I would download files, they would always automatically go into my downloads folder. I have not done anything recently except fix the indexing on this mac with a sudo command.
Shortly after, ...
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sudo: /private/etc/sudoers.d is owned by uid 501 should be 0 - unable to run sudo commands on terminal - big sur [duplicate]
My brew command was getting stuck without any output. So I tried reinstalling brew. When I try to re-install using:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/...
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user is not in the sudoers file macOS catalina
I'm using macOS catalina 10.15.7. I recently found out i cannot run sudo anymore, tried to run sudo brew install nats-server, and got this message:
<myusername> is not in the sudoers file. This ...
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sudo: /private/etc/sudoers.d is owned by uid 501 should be 0 - unable to run sudo commands on terminal (macOS Big Sur 11.3.1)
When I Run Any Sudo Commands I get:
sudo: /private/etc/sudoers.d is owned by uid 501, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: error initializing audit plugin sudoers_audit
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How to open another Account's User folder using Terminal?
I used to be able to use one of these commands to switch to another user account (my own) to work on it.
john$ login admin
password:
admin$ open .
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -610 for the ...
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What service to restart after modifying /etc/sudoers for macOS to make changes active without reboot?
What's the service that needs to be restarted after modifying /etc/sudoers for macOS in order to make changes active without a system reboot?
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Enable sudoing for the logged-in user for one specific prefpane only?
We are running OS X 10.14 VMs hosted on VMWare ESX.
Users log into the VMs via Screensharing app.
VMWare sets the resolution settings to an odd value, so the users would have to use a VMWare command ...
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"/etc/sudoers is world writable” on Mac OS Mojave [duplicate]
I have gone through a lot of google results. Let me explain what I have tried first. I am currently working on a corporate laptop. Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6.
Error that I get:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is world ...
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How can I remove unwanted preinstalled apps from macOS?
In macOS there are a lot of pre-installed bloatware applications. I know that I will never use them. Examples of such apps are: Chess, Stocks, Messages, TV and so on.
While some of them may not take ...
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How can I get permissions for brew?
As recommended, I created an admin user and a regular user which I use for regular usage.
for some reason I keep getting asked for my sudo admin password (when installing apps, updating apps, etc) - I ...
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Syntax Error in etc/sudoers and can't edit it in terminal [duplicate]
I was/am trying to run terminal commands without having to use sudo first and must have broke the file. Now I'm trying to fix it and it's giving me this error when I try to edit with the same sudo ...
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pam_tid.so asks for password instead of requesting for fingerprint when docked
I used to use auth sufficient pam_tid.so in the /private/etc/pam.d/sudo file to allow fingerprint authentification when using sudo command.
Recently upgraded my MBP for a new M1 under macOS Big Sur (...
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Shimo/Clean My Mac require passwords after messing with sudoers
I messed with sudoers file and sudo was not working. I fixed the issue (booted from recovery mode, mounted root filesystem and fixed permissions) and sudo is now working properly, but after this ...
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When do processes run under root by default?
I know that when I use "sudo" an application can run under root, or if a window appears saying "Application wants to make changes to the system, enter your password for this", they ...
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