Questions tagged [sudo]
Used when executing commands as another user.
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Terminal returns not found for most commands Mac OSX
I'm really new to Mac OSX and UNIX based systems. I wanted to run a few Windows games on my Mac Mini so I started installing Wine and MacPorts.
I think the installs are correct, but when I type sudo ...
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sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, should be 0
To run programs as sudo without password, I edited /etc/sudoers with wrong content.
Then I re-edited it with Mac's default text editor(course sudo cannot be used when /etc/sudoers is wrong).
I ...
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how to start a mysql server on login
I currently use Valet to develop sites, and many of those sites need SQL databases. To host SQL databases, I run a mariaDB server from the Terminal. In order to start the MySQL server so that I can ...
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How do I run terminal in sudo mode?
I was trying to install npm, and I got
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, Permission denied '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please use 'sudo' or log in as root to run this command.
npm ERR!
...
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Why can't I run `su`? (and how should I do?)
Whenever I try to issue su I get this:
$ su
Password:
su: Sorry
Needless to say, I'm entering the correct admin password which does work with sudo. What I want is not having to enter sudo each ...
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How do I open a file as root in TextEdit on Lion?
How do I open a file as root, in TextEdit? I've tried these commands as root, but TextEdit always say it's locked:
open -e /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
open -e -F /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
open -e -F -W /...
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Fixing /etc/sudoers file
I'm a systems admin for a company and was thrown into a horribly configured server. In the midst of my refactoring I was adding users to my /etc/sudoers file. I seem to have accidentally removed my ...
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allow sudo to another user without password
I want to be able to 'su' to a specific user, allowing me to run any command without a password being entered.
For example:
If my login were user1 and the user I want to 'su' to is user2:
I would ...
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Can't write to /usr/lib
I upgraded to OS X El Capitan and tried to install a new app (MPLAB X from Microchip) but I got an error because it couldn't copy a library to /usr/lib even when it asked for root password. I tried to ...
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How to install ruby gems without sudo
I want to install a Ruby Gem to my computer, but since I don't have an administrator account I can't use sudo. How do I install a Gem without sudo, and what (if any) privileges do I loose? This is in ...
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How do I reset/recover my superuser password without the boot disk?
I lost the superuser password for my iMac and I don't have the boot disk. I already tried the second answer on this page, but every time I type su from the command prompt, it still asks for a ...
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How to fix curl: (60) SSL certificate: Invalid certificate chain when using sudo
So since the Mavericks upgrade curl has more issues with certificates.
When trying to curl a file from my web server with it's self-signed certificate it was getting the error "SSL Certificate: ...
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How do I give a user sudo permissions?
On my computer I have two accounts: geoff and admin. I want to do gacutil.... Doing it in account geoff (where I need it to be done) I get the message:
gac directories could not be created, possibly ...
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Where can I find logs for failed sudo attempts on macOS Sierra?
I am aware that older versions of OS X use secure.log, but I have been unable to find any definite answers as to where the the output log goes for for attempting to run a command with sudo privileges ...
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Why is sudo taking way too long?
I recently updated to macOS Sierra 10.12.4 Beta (16E144f) and it might be what is causing sudo to delay up to 10 minutes as it's the most recent change I recall since this problem occurred. I have ...
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How to specify command to always run as root?
In Mountain Lion, I frequently used a simple automator app called "Purge Memory" which just ran "purge" in the command line. I really enjoyed cleaning the RAM, especially when buggy apps ran memory ...
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Can't write to /usr even with sudo
Here's my problem:
sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar
...should let me run as root and modify /usr & /usr/share directories, but I get this:
Below is a suggested file layout for your ...
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How do I install sudo insults on Mac?
How do I install sudo insults† on Mac terminal?
Apparently Apple has cleaned it up from Darwin, so adding Defaults insults through sudo visudo does not help.
† The insulting things sudo command says ...
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How do I run sudo command from standard account?
From what I've read, it is good security approach to have two accounts, one admin and one standard.
I am trying to run the following command in terminal on my standard account
sudo mv /System/...
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1answer
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User login password not working for sudo
My user login password not working for executing sudo in terminal and I cannot unlock Users & Groups preferences. I tried to write password in editor and paste it but no success on macOS 10.13.3
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Why does sudo ask for a password in terminal?
Why does sudo ask for a password when one can sudo su without a password and perform the same commands? Is there a way to make sudo not ask for a password when you're logged in as the an admin anyway?
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Can sudo's annoying message be removed from Mountain Lion 10.8.0?
After the upgrade to 10.8.0, whenever I do a sudo, I always get this message:
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
I have ...
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How to get output from the console.app from a non-admin account?
I almost exclusively use a non-admin account for everyday use. Only for installing software, etc. I log in with the admin account.
This normally works very well, however, there is one issue I haven't ...
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how to run `hping` without `sudo`
I've installed hping using brew install hping.
When I run hping without sudo I get:
$ hping 8.8.8.8
[open_sockraw] socket(): Operation not permitted
[main] can't open raw socket
When I run sudo ...
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Is there a way to set an Application Shortcut in the Keyboard Preference Pane via Terminal?
I'd like to have a bootstrap for my custom keyboard shortcuts to use on multiple machines...
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Is it OK to run -sudo purge, frequently? [duplicate]
I'm on Mavericks 10.9.2, 24GB's RAM, and my usage constantly teters on 23.95 GB in use very frequently.
From what I can tell, the largest running process is 'kernel_task', and even then it's less ...
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Terminal becomes unresponsive when a “sudo” password prompt is displayed
When asked to type my password to run a sudo command, the USB keyboard goes unresponsive and I cannot type in the password or anything else.
I can hit return three times to bounce out on three failed ...
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How can I execute sudo commands as a cron job?
I'm trying to execute a shell script as a cron job. The problem is that my script needs to be run as a super user. I tried it with just writing sudo infront of the command in my crontab file, but it ...
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How do I fix this sudo permission issue - UID 503, should be 0 - El Capitan
Whenever I try any sudo command whatsoever in terminal, I get the following error message:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 503, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
I have ...
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How to open a shell script in a new Terminal window and run it with administrator privileges
I need to programmatically open a shell script in a Terminal window and run it with administrator privileges. I'm using osascript as it displays a convenient prompt for an admin login/password.
I'm ...
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Sudo folder empty/broke
For some reason my I can't run sudo, every time I try, I just get the error sudo: unable to open /var/db/sudo/ts/user: Invalid argument
The folder listed in the error (/private/var/db/sudo) is ...
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Is it possible to create a user with all admin rights *except* the ability to interrupt a particular process and access a particular folder?
On Windows, it's not really doable. It is possible on linux with mandatory access control (for example). So you can have a web filter running, but the sudoer wouldn't be able to interfere with it (at ...
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Where should I install new (source code) software on a Mac?
I am new to the Mac philosophy, but I have been using Ubuntu since a while. Now I am using Mac at work, and I have to install a few programs, not apps, from source code distribution.
I did try to ...
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Sudo command no longer functions properly
When I use the sudo command I get an error message.
sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
If I try to use chmod ...
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Why can I not use `sudo` as a `Standard` user in macOS?
I do most of the "work" I do on my Mac as a Standard user (Apple parlance for an unprivileged user). I also frequently use the CLI (zsh mostly now) via the Terminal app. I use MacPorts as a ...
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prevent networksetup from asking for password
I am trying to get rid of password when changing proxy with networksetup. I changed permissions to read and write of /private/etc folder and propagated change to subfolders.
I tried this:
sudo chmod ...
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How to add Sudo Insults with TouchID without disabling SIP
I am following a guide to recompile sudo with insults. However, I felt uncomfortable disabling SIP so I modified it a bit to allow me to use it with SIP enabled. Unfortunately recompiling sudo broke ...
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Mac asking for password for some files when deleting [duplicate]
This happens not for all files. When I move or delete some of the files on my external drive Finder will ask for password. Is it due to permission set on these files ? Can I use something like Sudo ...
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Issue installing MacPorts on Mavericks
I try to install MacPorts and get this
$ sudo make install
make: getcwd: Permission denied
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
=...
