Questions tagged [privileges]
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What am I doing wrong here? (npm, root privileges ... ?)
Somewhat floundering. I'm trying to install and run an open-source app called "Swordfish", which is a CAT (computer-assisted translation) app. I've never really built from source before in ...
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Mapping two users to host with user namespaces
I'm trying to understand whether it's possible to map two users from a user namespace to two different users on the host. The goal is to replicate the same permissions I have on my host inside a ...
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How do I enable hibernate for all users (no sudo)?
I managed to resize my LVM partitions, set up my swapfile, and disable secure boot, so now I can hibernate with sudo systemctl hibernate. However, I want to be able to hibernate from my power menu (...
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How does rfkill work without being root (or using sudo)?
I saw this statement at the end of this answer: PS: I have no idea why rfkill works when run as an unprivileged user. On my Mint, it doesn't have a setuid or setgid bit. I was curious, and looked on ...
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Super-user privileges for Chromium browser
After apt-get install chromium and running it on Debian 12, ps alx | grep -e ^F -e ^5.*chromium returns: F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 5 1000 ...
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Is it possible to grant a specific privilege to a user without sudo?
I'm not going to add sudo in my Buildroot environment for RPi 3 B+ since I just need apache2 to update my system time with date -s TIME. Is there a way to grant this permission without installing and ...
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How can I privilage a user to sign in on my ubuntu server via ssh when a system shutdown is scheduled?
I have scheduled a system reboot every night in my crontab with this line: 0 4 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r +5 I would like to be able to log in and cancel the reboot if I need the system to stay up at ...
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Trying to mount USB-drive automatically through udev; script complains that it's not superuser [duplicate]
I am trying to mount my USB-drive automatically on Linux. I have this script: #!/usr/bin/bash mount /dev/safety1 /mnt/hd 2> /home/harald/errors/e rsync -az /mnt/hd/ /home/harald/backups/ &&...
