Howto script "sudo"?

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Jul 19 12:38:33 UTC 2010


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On 07/18/2010 08:51 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to pass "sudo" the root-password in some way (I would
> prefer plaintext)?
> 
> The reason is I use an umts-connection utility which has to run as
> root, and I don't want to have my parents type a root-password every
> time they connect to our ISP. For now I simply didn't set a
> root-password, and choose "run as: root" in KDE, but I really dislike
> this solution.
> 
> Thank you in advance, Clemens
Just setup sudo to run those commands for your parents account without
any prompt for root access.

Man sudoers
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