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From: laredotornado on 26 Apr 2010 12:37
Hi,

I'm using Mac 10.6.3. I'm a sudo user. On my machine, I frequently
need to restart my Apache web server, and hwen I pop open my terminal
and type

> sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

I'm prompted for a password immediately after. Is there a way I can
avoid having to type my password and just enter the command above?

Thanks, - Dave
From: JF Mezei on 26 Apr 2010 12:52
laredotornado wrote:

> I'm prompted for a password immediately after. Is there a way I can
> avoid having to type my password and just enter the command above?

sudo bash

you enter the poassword once, and then you have a subprocess which is
always in sudo mode.

Or you can enable the "root" account <ducking because I know the
comments that will be made> and you can then login in as "root" and not
need to use sudo.
From: johnny bobby bee on 26 Apr 2010 13:57
On 04/26/2010 12:37 PM, laredotornado wrote:
> I'm prompted for a password immediately after. Is there a way I can
> avoid having to type my password and just enter the command above?

sudo su

You'll need to enter the password once. Then enter all the commands to
your heart's content. Exit when finished.

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From: Jolly Roger on 26 Apr 2010 14:28
In article
<28ac1987-ba86-4ce3-b562-3981cae0ff7a(a)h16g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
laredotornado <laredotornado(a)zipmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using Mac 10.6.3. I'm a sudo user. On my machine, I frequently
> need to restart my Apache web server, and hwen I pop open my terminal
> and type
>
> > sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart
>
> I'm prompted for a password immediately after. Is there a way I can
> avoid having to type my password and just enter the command above?
>
> Thanks, - Dave

The most secure way to do this is by editing the /etc/sudoers file to
contain an entry that allows NOPASSWD access for particular commands.
For instance, if you wanted to allow NOPASSWD access for the user named
dave to the apachectl command, you would add entries similar to this:

Cmnd_Alias APACHECTL = /usr/sbin/apachectl
dave ALL = NOPASSWD:APACHECTL

For more information, read the sudo and sudoers manual pages.

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From: Jolly Roger on 26 Apr 2010 14:30
In article <4bd5c4b0$0$9587$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:

> laredotornado wrote:
>
> > I'm prompted for a password immediately after. Is there a way I can
> > avoid having to type my password and just enter the command above?
>
> sudo bash
>
> you enter the poassword once, and then you have a subprocess which is
> always in sudo mode.

The drawback to doing this is that it's an extra step you have to take
each occasion you want to run commands as root/admin. A better
alternative is to add an appropriate entry in /etc/sudoers (as I have
described in another reply) that allows you to run that command without
a password prompt as the particular user account you use daily. This
saves you that extra step of switching to the root/admin account each
occasion.

> Or you can enable the "root" account <ducking because I know the
> comments that will be made> and you can then login in as "root" and not
> need to use sudo.

Overkill. 'Nuff said.

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