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needing root while shell scripting

so some of my statements in my shell scripts need to run as root, is there a way to prevent the need to prompt the user for the root password everytime the script is run? ( I'm using sudo [insert commands here]. Is there a more elegant way of doing this? )

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Re: needing root while shell scripting

I don't believe there's a more elegant way, no but in the sudoers file you can specify certain commands that can be run without prompting for a password.  For example:

%wheel  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown

All users in the wheel group can execute shutdown as root without entering a password.

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