Top "Sudo" questions

The sudo command is a program for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems that allows a user to run programs with the security privileges of another user (normally the superuser, or root).

Mac OSX no valid sudoers sources found

I am always getting this error. What is the solution ?

macos sudo sudoers
IOError: 13, 'Permission denied' when writing to /etc/hosts via Python

I have a Python app that I'm working on that needs to access the hosts file to append a few …

python io privileges sudo hosts-file
Should Vagrant require sudo for each command?

My question in short: I run into permissions error every time I execute any Vagrant command without 'sudo' - from …

macos permissions vagrant sudo chown
sudo: unable to resolve host ServerName (takes very long time to "sudo su" )

I use vmware and install ubuntu 12.10 as my guest OS. and run my pc , my network interface is a wireless …

ubuntu sudo ubuntu-12.10
WinSCP connect to Amazon AMI EC2 Instance changing user after login to "root"

I followed instructions here carefully however I haven't get this working right. Here is what I did: Run WinSCP enter …

amazon-ec2 sudo putty scp winscp
sudo python runs old python version

I have installed python 2.7.3 on CentOS 6 with thse instructions http://villaroad.com/2010/10/rolling-python-2-6-2-on-centos-5-3/ I have added …

python centos sudo centos6
Regex in Sudoers File?

I've a regex and want to use it in a sudoers file. But I couldn't get it work. \/test\/([0-9…

regex linux sudo sudoers
rvmsudo : command not found

I am following this great post to configure my rails production server on ubuntu 10.10 : rails production When I want to …

ruby-on-rails-3 rvm sudo ubuntu-10.10
How to use SSH and SUDO together with TRAMP in Emacs

Possible Duplicate: Open file via SSH and Sudo with Emacs I want to open a file using sudo (say, /etc/…

emacs ssh sudo tramp
Suppress log entry for single sudo commands

For server monitoring, we execute couple of commands with password-less sudo every minute. This fills the server logs. sudo: zabbix : …

linux unix sudo syslog