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eldarion

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From: Santarém - Portugal

Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 71

[SOLVED] Ask root password automatically [question]

Hi, everybody. 

Is there any way for console apps that need to be run as root to ask root password when we type the command?

Ex:

[user@localhost ~]$ pacman -Syu
You cannot perform this operation unless you are root. Please, insert the root password:

I know that there is "sudo", but i really dont like it because i have allways to type "sudo command".

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by eldarion (2007-10-06 18:46:50)

bwalk

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 177

Re: [SOLVED] Ask root password automatically [question]

Alias them to whatever you like.

alias pacman='su -c /usr/bin/pacman'
alias pacman='sudo /usr/bin/pacman'

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: [SOLVED] Ask root password automatically [question]

su -c "pacman -Syu"

I think your user has to be in a "wheel" group.

eldarion

Member

From: Santarém - Portugal

Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 71

Re: [SOLVED] Ask root password automatically [question]

Now that's better!

Ok, Thanks for replying.