Re: MacPorts shell mode

2017-10-19 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, > On 19 Oct 2017, at 9:07 pm, Rainer Müller wrote: > >> On 2017-10-19 19:28, Christopher Jones wrote: >> >>> If you really want to run a command without typing your password, >>> configure the sudoers file accordingly. There are plenty of guides on >>> the web on how to do this, or see 'man

Re: MacPorts shell mode

2017-10-19 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2017-10-19 19:28, Christopher Jones wrote: > >> If you really want to run a command without typing your password, >> configure the sudoers file accordingly. There are plenty of guides on >> the web on how to do this, or see 'man sudoers' and 'man visudo'. >> >> Be aware of the security implicat

Re: MacPorts shell mode

2017-10-19 Thread Christopher Jones
> If you really want to run a command without typing your password, > configure the sudoers file accordingly. There are plenty of guides on > the web on how to do this, or see 'man sudoers' and 'man visudo'. > > Be aware of the security implications such a configuration has. Allowing > to run por

Re: MacPorts shell mode

2017-10-19 Thread William H. Magill
This is the normal operation of the SUDO command. Read the man page for sudo — man sudo. Sudo has many configurable parameters which control its operation. > On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, pagani laurent via macports-users wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Reading the mails on this list, I discovered the She

Re: MacPorts shell mode

2017-10-19 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2017-10-19 18:25, -dan d. wrote: > > I make an "mp" alias of the below which allows doing a port command without > repeated sudo inputs.  In effect it puts your pasword into sudo for you: > > echo your-password | /usr/bin/sudo -S port $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 Not a good idea. This means your password i

Re: MacPorts shell mode

2017-10-19 Thread -dan d.
I make an "mp" alias of the below which allows doing a port command without repeated sudo inputs. In effect it puts your pasword into sudo for you: echo your-password | /usr/bin/sudo -S port $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, pagani laurent via macports-users wrote: Hi all, Reading the m

Re: MacPorts shell mode

2017-10-18 Thread pagani laurent via macports-users
> Le 19 oct. 2017 à 02:37, Bradley Giesbrecht a écrit : > >> On Oct 18, 2017, at 5:31 PM, pagani laurent via macports-users >> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Reading the mails on this list, I discovered the Shell mode option (sudo >> port without argument) which would allow in principle to laun

Re: MacPorts shell mode

2017-10-18 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
> On Oct 18, 2017, at 5:31 PM, pagani laurent via macports-users > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Reading the mails on this list, I discovered the Shell mode option (sudo port > without argument) which would allow in principle to launch several commands > without repeating sudo port each time (and ty