sudo password

[hrvarakl]

Hi all!

I was wandering if there is any way of inserting the user password
inside a sudo command, using an option [-something] for example, and thus not having to type it when prompted to(after the sudo command)...
Well,what I want to do is run a script at startup which would mount
one of my hard drives that is not mounted automatically and mount must be executed as root, so a sudo is needed...

[Mr A Mouse]

If you could do it that way, anyone who can see your screen (physically or via a remote session) immediately sees your root password. Double-plus ungood.

[hrvarakl]

That would indeed be a problem but let's say we don't care about that that much.. I am looking into other ways of mounting the disk at startup but I would like to make the script work(just for fun )

[Mr A Mouse]

Oh, simple--instead of manually mounting it, add it to your fstab file. Instructions are here.

[Mr A Mouse]

Oh, simple--instead of manually mounting it, add it to your fstab file. Instructions are here.

Edited to add: Sudo was deliberately designed to not accept a password as an argument, so I don't think it can be done on a single command line. Doing it from a script may be possible, but I'm not good enough with scripts to know for sure.

[da chicken]

Edit your sudoers file with visudo and add the NOPASSWD flag for the user for those commands you want to script.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers

However, why not run it as an init script?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBootupHowto

[ibuclaw]

Is the hard-drive removeable?
If so, you can use pmount without the sudo command to mount it.

To test it, unmount the hard-drive and type in:

pmount /dev/sda1

Or whatever the device name is called.

Also, the bootscript is executed as root. So no sudo is required.

gksu gedit /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default

Scroll all the way down to the bottom, and before the "exit 0" line.
Put in this:

[ "$(ls -A /media/MOUNTPOINT)" ] && echo "device mounted" || mount /dev/DEVICE /media/MOUNTPOINT

Change everything in bold to what they should be.

Then save the file and reboot.

NOTE:
For the script to work, the folder where your hard-drive mounts in must be empty as a prerequisite.

Regards
Iain

[Mr A Mouse]

Edit your sudoers file with visudo and add the NOPASSWD flag for the user for those files.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers

Oops! My bad--I didn't know you could do this.

[ibuclaw]

Edit your sudoers file with visudo and add the NOPASSWD flag for the user for those files.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers

But first, type in this:

export EDITOR=gedit
sudo -E visudo

Else you'll get a real shock when you open up into Vim!

[EDIT]
Just read the help docs... They are quoting me from a post I may last month!

gedit ~/.bashrc

Add the lines :

export EDITOR=gedit
alias visudo='-E visudo'

That has made my day!
Although, I have to shamefully say that that doesn't seem to work anymore (I'm looking in a fix).


Regards
Iain

[hrvarakl]

Edited to add: Sudo was deliberately designed to not accept a password as an argument, so I don't think it can be done on a single command line. Doing it from a script may be possible, but I'm not good enough with scripts to know for sure.

Well the script seems to run at startup but(I think because of the sudo) mount fails(I am not even prompted to enter a password...)