ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don’t have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0 directory. Install RVM (optional) Set the gem folder in your shell resource file. I.e. .zshrc, .bashrc etc export GEM_HOME=”$HOME/.gem” Install you gem gem i LIBRARY_NAME
$SUDO_USER doesn’t work if you are using sudo su -. It also requires multiple checks – if $USER == ‘root’ then get $SUDO_USER. Instead of the command whoami use who am i. This runs the who command filtered for the current session. It gives you more info than you need. So, do this to get … Read more
Another way is to use the -t switch to ssh: ssh -t user@server “sudo script” See man ssh: -t Force pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to execute arbi- trary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be very useful, e.g., when implementing menu services. Multiple -t options force tty allocation, even if ssh … Read more
Another way is to use the -t switch to ssh: ssh -t user@server “sudo script” See man ssh: -t Force pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to execute arbi- trary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be very useful, e.g., when implementing menu services. Multiple -t options force tty allocation, even if ssh … Read more
check this example out: ssh.connect(‘127.0.0.1′, username=”jesse”, password=’lol’) stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command( “sudo dmesg”) stdin.write(‘lol\n’) stdin.flush() data = stdout.read.splitlines() for line in data: if line.split(‘:’)[0] == ‘AirPort’: print line Example found here with more explanations: http://jessenoller.com/2009/02/05/ssh-programming-with-paramiko-completely-different/ Hope it helps!
Try: subprocess.call([‘sudo’, ‘apach2ctl’, ‘restart’]) The subprocess needs to access the real stdin/out/err for it to be able to prompt you, and read in your password. If you set them up as pipes, you need to feed the password into that pipe yourself. If you don’t define them, then it grabs sys.stdout, etc…
You can follow these steps to compile/debug applications as superuser. Rename your java-application sudo mv /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java.ori Create following script and store it as /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java #!/bin/bash # file: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java # descr: Starter for jdk. Runs jdk as root when # cmd-line-arg “–run-as-root” is specified. # jre=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java.ori” run_as_root=false args= # Filter command-line argument for arg in … Read more
From my blog: IDMRockstar.com: The kicker is that sometimes, I need to run commands as root. Here’s the quick and dirty way I accomplish that without divulging the passwords: #! /bin/bash read -s -p “Enter Password for sudo: ” sudoPW echo $sudoPW | sudo -S yum update This way the user is prompted for the … Read more
For your command you also could refer to the following example: sudo sh -c ‘whoami; whoami’