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Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue Feb 10 09:36:54 PST 2015


On 10/02/15 17:32, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday February 10 2015 17:10:37 Chris Jones wrote:
>
>> 1) at least is solvable as you can configure your sudoers list to allow
>> your main user to run your port command (and that command only) through
>> sudoers without requiring a password.
>
> I know that, but for some reason I've never managed to get that to work following just the instructions in the file. I'm sure I must have been doing something wrong, but in practice it was just as easy, for individual commands, to make a wrapper that prepends sudo.

works fine for me...

You are using visudo yes ? Then all you want is

chris   ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /opt/local/bin/port

replacing chris with your username (and the path to port if it differs).




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