I was wondering if it is possible to invoke a sudo GUI prompt instead of prompting through the terminal such as
osascript -e 'do shell script \" command here \" with administrator privileges'
and how I would go about it in ruby.
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MobaXterm not displaying all the information for a WSL command and not even asking for users input.
Following is the command I tried in powershell to open MobaXterm to run a WSL command.
.\MobaXterm.exe -newtab "wsl bash -c 'command here which asks user for an input'"
But when I run wsl bash -c 'command here which asks user for an input' directly on powershell it works just fine
Please let me know how can I make MobaXterm to display all the output.
Try changing the syntax:
For each method, you can append a command that you’d like to execute
in the terminal. That is:
-c [command]
bash -c [command]
wsl [command] (NOTE: In this case you don’t append ‘-c’, you just type in your command)
In this case, try:
.\MobaXterm.exe -newtab "wsl 'command here which asks user for an input'"
I want to extend the sudo timeout using GUI on my Mac for a script which contains sudo commands but is not allowed to run with root in total.
so I want to do something like:
osascript -e "do shell script 'sudo -v'" with administrator privileges"
do_some_thing_without_root
sudo do_some_thing_with_root_but_without_asking_the_password
I want to have my AppleScript application run a Python script with sudo, but I don't want the application to prompt the user for a password (our users do not have sudo privileges).
The Python script has been added to the /etc/sudoers file appropriately (ALL ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/script.py). In the terminal, I can do (as a regular, non-privileged user):
$ sudo ./script.py
and it runs perfectly well. But in AppleScript when you try to do:
do shell script "sudo ./script.py"
You of course get the "sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified" error. But if you change it to:
do shell script "./script.py" with administrator privileges
AppleScript insists on presenting a popup window to ask for the password. I have also tried passing a null password to sudo with a pipe:
do shell script "echo '' | sudo -S ./script.py"
but that also does not work. (I think it tries to run sudo individually first and then pass the command through, which won't work because the user doesn't have sudo privileges!)
I need a solution where AppleScript will run the Python script with sudo. I would prefer the script stays unreadable and un-executable by average users for security reasons, and is only executed through the AppleScript. (I know that, hypothetically, the users could call sudo script.py and it would run, but that's assuming they even know about sudoers; I'm trying to keep it as secure as possible while still usable).
I'm still pretty new to AppleScript, so any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
When I added ALL ALL=NOPASSWD: /Users/myusername/a to sudoers and ran echo $'#!/bin/bash\nsay $(ls ~root|head -n1)'>~/a;chmod +x ~/a, do shell script "sudo ~/a" ran the script as root without requiring a password.
I'm guessing the problem is that you specified the path like do shell script "sudo ./script.py". Try to use do shell script "sudo ~/script.py" instead. The default working directory is for do shell script is / and not ~/.
I have a simple shell script that is run with sudo as most of the script requires it, yet one of the commands in the script is a Homebrew install, which cannot be executed with sudo..
So, my question is when executing a shell script with sudo how do I execute sub commands as the current user and then continue the remainder of the script with sudo.
Prompting the user to enter his password again is not really practical as the script takes really long to execute and would require waiting 5-10 min for the prompt.
The easiest way is to run the subcommand via sudo from within the script. The user id to run with can be obtained by $SUDO_USER (look at the output of sudo env):
sudo -u $SUDO_USER ./exec_as_normal_user.sh
Instantiate the shell using
sudo -u $USER_NAME bash
and execute the shell script by calling,
./program.sh
I am developing a TIBCO application and need to be able to run a scp command from an external command resource.
Anyway the issue boils down to being able to log in to bash.exe then run my scp command in the same line.
it works when I run (from cmd.exe)
c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login
(I enter bash)
Then I can run my scp statement just fine
scp account#server:~mysourcedirectory/targetfilename* /cygdrive/c/targetfolder
I want to do these two things in the same line but it doesnt work, aka
c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c scp account#server:~mysourcedirectory/targetfilename* /cygdrive/c/targetfolder
will fail. What am I doing wrong and how can i run this command in one go?
Thanks
You have to quote the command.
c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c "scp account#server:~mysourcedirectory/targetfilename* /cygdrive/c/targetfolder"
Tested using cmd in wine in gnu/linux. Single quotes did not work, I don't know all the quoting rules for cmd. But the above did work.