Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/05/2023 12:20 PM, old sixpack13 wrote: KISS bash history CRTL+r and keyed in "ether" and ENTER thanks anyway ! That works, of course, if the line you need to repeat is different every time. If it's something you use all the time, either a one-liner script, or an alias in .bashrec migh

Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-05 Thread old sixpack13
> On 10/03/2023 03:35 PM, old sixpack13 wrote: > > If you're using that exact same command often enough, create an alias > for it and put it into your .bashrc. That way, you not only save > keystrokes, you avoid typoes. KISS bash history CRTL+r and keyed in "ether" and ENTER thanks anyway ! _

Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-03 Thread Barry
> On 3 Oct 2023, at 22:15, old sixpack13 wrote: > > I don't want to have user joe in sudo group Why not? You can control who runs which command with sudoers config. Barry ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send a

Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/03/2023 03:35 PM, old sixpack13 wrote: I've tested similar. If you're using that exact same command often enough, create an alias for it and put it into your .bashrc. That way, you not only save keystrokes, you avoid typoes. ___ users mailin

Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-03 Thread old sixpack13
> On 10/3/23 14:35, old sixpack13 wrote: > > Add "-P" to the "su" command. Thanks again and @ALL the working command is: su -P -c "sudo ether-wake -i enp3s0 && ping nuc" - ron ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/3/23 14:35, old sixpack13 wrote: On 10/3/23 14:14, old sixpack13 wrote: su -c "sudo ether-wake -i enp3s0 && ping nuc" - ron Thanks ! I've tested similar. with your command I get: Password: sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from stand

Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-03 Thread old sixpack13
> On 10/3/23 14:14, old sixpack13 wrote: > > su -c "sudo ether-wake -i enp3s0 && ping nuc" - ron Thanks ! I've tested similar. with your command I get: Password: sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass h

Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/3/23 14:14, old sixpack13 wrote: I have the following problem: I'm logged in as user joe (he is not in sudo group) and want to etherwake a remote box, called nuc, via an one-liner in an script. now, on an command line, I usually do 1. su - ron (ron is in sudo group) 2. and then sudo ethe

Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/3/23 14:20, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/03/2023 03:14 PM, old sixpack13 wrote: now, on an command line, I usually do 1. su - ron (ron is in sudo group) 2. and then sudo ether-wake -i enp3s0 && ping nu Why?  If you have access to su and the root password, why bother with sudo?  Just use su -c

Re: Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/03/2023 03:14 PM, old sixpack13 wrote: now, on an command line, I usually do 1. su - ron (ron is in sudo group) 2. and then sudo ether-wake -i enp3s0 && ping nu Why? If you have access to su and the root password, why bother with sudo? Just use su -c "ether-wake -i enp3s0 && ping nu"

Question regarding sudo and su

2023-10-03 Thread old sixpack13
I have the following problem: I'm logged in as user joe (he is not in sudo group) and want to etherwake a remote box, called nuc, via an one-liner in an script. now, on an command line, I usually do 1. su - ron (ron is in sudo group) 2. and then sudo ether-wake -i enp3s0 && ping nuc etherwake