Re: Running script with admin privileges without admin login
Re: Running script with admin privileges without admin login
- Subject: Re: Running script with admin privileges without admin login
- From: "Dr. Max Bonilla" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 16:04:18 -0500
Hi Ken,
Thanks a lot for the reply. I'll pass it on.
Max
Max Bonilla, SSL, STD
Associate Dean for Program Development
Franciscan University of Steubenville
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On 2/5/04 1:52 PM, "Graff" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Well you can only use sudo for a command if you are given that
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permission in the file "/etc/sudoers". Sudo doesn't really turn you
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into the root user, what it does is allow you to use the command with
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more than your normal privileges and your use of sudo is logged. This
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is why you enter in your password, not the root password.
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If you are logged into an account that and want to use a command that
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the acount doesn't have privileges for and isn't in the sudoers file
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then you need to use the command "su" to switch to a user that has
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permission to use the command. For example, you could do this in the
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Terminal (you will need to enter a password after the first line):
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su admin_user_name
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/System/Library/StartupItems/mDNSResponder/mDNSResponder stop
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exit
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BE VERY CAREFUL with the shell command "su".
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It is possible to screw things up severely, especially since some of
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the protections built into "sudo" are not part of "su".
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However, I think that you might not need sudo at all, however. Give
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this a try:
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do shell script
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"/System/Library/StartupItems/mDNSResponder/mDNSResponder stop"
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password "password" with administrator privileges
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If that doesn't work then try this:
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do shell script "su admin_user_name;
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/System/Library/StartupItems/mDNSResponder/mDNSResponder stop; exit"
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password "password" with administrator privileges
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To learn more about "sudo" and "su do "man sudo" and "man su" in the
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Terminal. I'd recommend that you read those man pages carefully to
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understand how it all works "under the hood"
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- Ken
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On Feb 5, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Dr. Max Bonilla wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> Here's a problem one of my colleagues has. Perhaps someone can help
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> us. He
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> sent me this explanation:
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> This script works fine if you execute it as an administrator user, but
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> not
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> as a normal user. I'm trying to figure out a way to execute this in the
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> Student user account, which is not an administrator account. The other
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> problem is that I am planning on having this script be a hidden login
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> item,
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> so any solution that would require the administrator password to be
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> typed in
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> is not an option.
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> on run
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> do shell script ,
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> "sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/mDNSResponder/mDNSResponder
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> stop"
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> password "password" with administrator privileges
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> end run
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> Any ideas? Thanks a million.
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> Max
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