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I am doing several operations installing packages etc and one of those are

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl

obviously it asks my password.

Now, I would like to put all the operations I did in a script so that other people can do it too.

But how do I put this operation in a script if it requires that the user enters the sudo password?

(before in a dockerfile what I did was to mark first the USER as root and RUN the command, but I am not using docker this time)

KansaiRobot
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  • FYI: You do realize apt-get install won't work without sudo (possibly a typo in your question) – guiverc Jun 04 '23 at 07:27
  • This isn't elegant and it's not secure, but you can write: echo "your-password" | sudo -S apt-get update && echo "your-password" | sudo -S apt-get upgrade -y && echo "your-password" | sudo -S -S with sudo makes it read the password from standard input. I haven't put this an an answer as it means your password is there in plain text in the script, and it'll save your password in the shell history. I don't think that's a great idea - there must be a more secure way (eg password read from a secure file?). – Will Jun 04 '23 at 08:08
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    "the sudo password" ... There isn't a specific "sudo password". Either it's asking for your user's password (the default) or root's password (if you configured targetpw or rootpw. If they don't have sudo access, put the commands in a script, give them sudo access to that script and tell them to run that script with sudo. – muru Jun 04 '23 at 13:01
  • Please tell us what you exactly trying to accomplish, i.e. why other people need to do that, too? Is it on the same machine or are you sharing that script with i.e. your coworkers? – Alex Jun 04 '23 at 14:33

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A similar question was answered here .

To summerise, you should not be using sudo inside a shell script, rather run the whole script with sudo privilage.

sudo ./script.sh

Otherwise, if you still want, you can do,

sudo -u username command
Kumar Utsav
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