Timeline for Terminate Root Processes
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| Sep 22, 2011 at 18:37 | comment | added | Warren Young | I think you're not reading what we're writing carefully. It is possible to configure sudo so that it does not ask for a password. You tell it that such-and-such a user can run thus-and-so program with root privileges without a password. That is what the NOPASSWD bit does in the question Michael pointed you to. Once you set it up correctly, your script can say sudo kill $somepid, and it will do what you're asking. | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 17:07 | comment | added | Samantha Catania | As I wrote in the question this must be done from an agent program there must be no input from the user & there is no terminal window | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 17:03 | comment | added | enzotib | @SamanthaCatania: why you can't? You are not able to, or you do not have privilege to modify /etc/sudoers? | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 17:00 | comment | added | Samantha Catania | I can't configure it that way | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 15:45 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek | @Samantha "You can configure it to let you enter any command without a password". See this question | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 15:23 | comment | added | Samantha Catania | I used sudo but it still asks for the password; I have to implement this in a program so I can't have the user enter the password | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 15:20 | history | answered | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 |