When you run pip with sudo, you run setup.py with sudo. In other words, you run arbitrary Python code from the Internet as root. If someone puts up a malicious project on PyPI and you install it, you give an attacker root access to your machine. Prior to some recent fixes to pip and PyPI, … Read more
Granting the user to use that command without prompting for password should resolve the problem. First open a shell console and type: sudo visudo Then edit that file to add to the very end: username ALL = NOPASSWD: /fullpath/to/command, /fullpath/to/othercommand eg john ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/start, /sbin/stop will allow user john to sudo poweroff, … Read more
Your command does not work because the redirection is performed by your shell which does not have the permission to write to /root/test.out. The redirection of the output is not performed by sudo. There are multiple solutions: Run a shell with sudo and give the command to it by using the -c option: sudo sh … Read more
First you need to export HTTP_PROXY. Second, you need to read man sudo carefully, and pay attention to the -E flag. This works: $ export HTTP_PROXY=foof $ sudo -E bash -c ‘echo $HTTP_PROXY’ Here is the quote from the man page: -E, –preserve-env Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to preserve their … Read more
How to fix npm throwing error without sudo
The website your are linking at says the following between these code lines: Note that in some operating systems you may need to use python3 instead of python. The above command creates a private version of your Python interpreter inside a folder named flask. If you are using any other version of Python older than … Read more