Only the root user needs sudo requirement to login to mysql. I resolved this by creating a new user and granting access to the required databases: CREATE USER ‘newuser’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO ‘newuser’@’localhost’; now newuser can login without sudo requirement: mysql -u newuser -p
When you run git using sudo, git will run as root. Because git is running as root, ssh is running as root. Because ssh is running as root, it is trying to log on to the remote server as root. The remote server is not okay with this (as it should be!) You will need … Read more
Each time you run sudo, it forks and execs a new copy of the shell, running as root. That shell does not inherit functions from your shell (it can’t) and it doesn’t inherit functions from previous executions. You will have to write out a file containing the function definition and invocation and sudo the invocation … Read more
RVM comes with a handy wrapper generator that creates an intermediary loader for an init.d script. This allows you to load a service using a particular Ruby version and gemset. I use it like this (after installing the thin gem): 1 – create init.d entry for thin sudo thin install 2 – set up some … Read more
I had this problem to install laravel/lumen. It can be resolved with the following command: $ sudo chown -R “$(id -un)” “$(composer config –global home)” What this command does: Execute as privileged user (root) the command to change file owner (not group) to the current user (by name) recursively to the COMPOSER_HOME directory. As the … Read more
Old thread, but what about: echo ‘foobar ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL’ | sudo EDITOR=’tee -a’ visudo
I answered this question on SuperUser but only after the OP disregarded the unhelpful answer that was at the time the only answer to the question. Here is the proper way to elevate permissions in Cygwin, copied from my own answer on SuperUser: I found the answer on the Cygwin mailing list. To run command … Read more
Check out STPrivilegedTask, an Objective-C wrapper class around AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges() with an NSTask-like interface.
It’s possible (and advisable) to npm install -g node modules without sudo. Check the permission of your /usr/local/share/npm/bin folder. I had installed node and npm through brew (without sudo) and that particular folder ended up being owned by root. This fixed it for once and for all: $ sudo chown $(whoami) /usr/local/share/npm/bin (As for disallowing … Read more
You can more ore less manage to write your own with an AppleScript shell script: #!/bin/sh osascript -e “do shell script \”$*\” with administrator privileges” cocoasudo looks aesthetically more pleasing, but this is already deployed.