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How to use sudo to redirect output to a location?
The redirection of the output is not performed by sudo. There are multiple solutions: Run a shell with sudo and give the command to it by using the -c option: sudo sh -c ‘ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out’
How to use sudo with a python script?
Use /etc/fstab as mensi suggested. Use options user and noauto to let regular users mount that volume. Use Polkit for passwordless actions: Configure a .policy file for your script with yes and drop at /usr/share/polkit-1/actions Edit /etc/sudoers to allow your user to use sudo without typing your password.
How to pass Sudo password to Python stdin?
To pass the password to sudo ‘s stdin: #!/usr/bin/env python from subprocess import Popen, PIPE sudo_password = ‘mypass’ command = ‘mount -t vboxsf myfolder /home/myuser/myfolder’.split () p = Popen ([‘sudo’, ‘-S’] + command, stdin=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, universal_newlines=True) sudo_prompt = p.communicate (sudo_password + ‘n’)
Which is the best way to bypass Sudo?
The usual ways of bypassing this are: Wrap the commands in a script which you call under sudo. If the commands and/or log file changes, you can make the script take these as arguments. For example: This is especially useful for one off compound commands.
Why is sudo command denied with redirect or pipe?
The above sudo command resulted in permission denied because redirection is done by the shell which doesn’t has write permission. We can use sudo command with tee command to resolve this error:
What to do if sudo command does not run as root?
We can use sudo command with tee command to resolve this error: Using the above approach, the executed command before the pipe will not run as root (echo 1). That’s useful if you just need the output of a program, which does not require root privileges. In case the command before pipe requires root, we could use sudo before each command, as: