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Commands tagged sudo

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Terminal - Commands tagged sudo - 34 results
sudo date -s "$(ssh user@server.com "date -u")"
2010-03-31 11:59:27
User: rpavlick
Functions: date sudo
Tags: sudo
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Sync the date of one server to that of another.

(Useful when firewalls prevent you from using NTP.)

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:w !sudo tee > /dev/null %
2010-03-24 20:04:26
User: idemal
Functions: tee
Tags: vim sudo tee
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Save a file you edited in vim without the needed permissions (no echo)

Write a file you edited in Vim but that you do not have the permissions to write to (unless you use sudo.) Same as #1204 but without the echo to stdout that I find annoying.

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sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=/path/to/credenials //hostname/sharename /mount/point
2009-11-23 23:55:20
User: magma_camel
Functions: mount sudo
Tags: sudo mount samba cifs
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Mount a Windows share on the local network (Ubuntu) with user rights and use a specific samba user

mounts a samba share on a remote machine using a credentials file that can be in a file tht is not accessable by other users the file will look like:

username="username"

password="password"

best option i belive

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path+=( /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/local/sbin ); path=( ${(u)path} );
2009-10-31 02:32:25
User: atoponce
Tags: sudo zsh PATH sbin
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Add the sbin directories to your PATH if it doesn't already exist in ZSH.

On RHEL, Fedora and CentOS systems, and maybe others, the sbin directories aren't in the user's $PATH. For those systems that use 'sudo', this can be inconvenient typing the full path all the time. As a result, you can easily take advantage of adding the sbin directories to your PATH by adding this simple line to you .zshrc.

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:w !pfexec tee %
2009-07-29 08:35:00
User: ilyxa
Functions: tee
Tags: vim sudo tee
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Save a file you edited in vim without the needed permissions - (Open)solaris version with RBAC
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sudo pmset schedule sleep "08/31/2009 00:00:00"
2009-05-14 09:31:32
User: hobzcalvin
Functions: sleep sudo
Tags: sudo macosx osx mac sleep timer pmset
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Mac Sleep Timer

Schedule your Mac to sleep at any future time.

Also wake, poweron, shutdown, wakeorpoweron. Or repeating with

sudo pmset repeat wakeorpoweron MTWRFSU 7:00:00

Query with

pmset -g sched

Lots more at http://www.macenterprise.org/articles/powermanagementandschedulingviathecommandline

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sudo vi /etc/fstab; Go//smb-share/gino /mnt/place smbfs defaults,username=gino,password=pass 0 0<esc>:wq; mount //smb-share/gino
2009-04-02 16:04:35
User: GinoMan2440
Functions: mount sudo vi
Tags: Filesystem bash vim sudo Linux mount macosx unix vi smb smbfs samba fstab gino
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automount samba shares as devices in /mnt/

the middle command between the ; and ; is the vi commands that insert that line into the last line of the file, the esc with the carets is literally hitting the escape key, you have to have the smbfs package installed to do it, I use it to access my iTunes music on my mac from my linux PC's with amarok so I can play the music anywhere in the house. among other things, it allows you to access the files on that share from your computer anytime you're on that network.

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function nuke() { if [ $(whoami) != "root" ] ; then for x in $@; do sudo apt-get autoremove --purge $x; done; else for x in $@; do apt-get autoremove --purge $x; done; fi }
2009-03-25 23:21:21
User: ruinbox
Functions: sudo
Tags: sudo apt-get
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Remove apps with style: nuke it from orbit

You can't stand programs x, y, and z. Remove all trace of their existence by adding this function to your config. It will remove the cruft, the settings, and such and such. This function doesn't even give a damn about you trying to remove programs that don't exist: it'll just for loop to the next one on your hit list.

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stty -echo; ssh -t HOSTNAME "sudo some_command"; stty echo
2009-03-04 19:44:36
User: jmcantrell
Functions: ssh stty
Tags: ssh sudo
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Execute a sudo command remotely, without displaying the password

The ssh command alone will execute the sudo command remotely, but the password will be visible in the terminal as you type it. The two stty commands disable the terminal from echoing the password back to you, which makes the remote sudo act as it does locally.

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