[SOLVED] How to run application without sudo? In my case ProtonVPN

[Spectrum]

Hi! I want to be able to run ProtonVPN from a startup script in order to auto-connect to VPN upon startup.

ProtonVPN requires sudo rights.

I've tried to add this to my sudoers in an attempt to let it run without sudo:

spectrum spectrum-P55-USB3 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/protonvpn

It doesn't seem to work:

spectrum@spectrum-P55-USB3:~$ /usr/local/bin/protonvpn c -f
[!] The program was not executed as root.
[!] Please run as root.

Am I doing sudoers wrong?

Thanks in advance!

[jlittle]

(A mistake I made is that) if you use a sudoers file to allow running a command as root without entering your password, you still need to prefix it with "sudo"; it just doesn't ask for the password. Did you leave in the "sudo"?

[Spectrum]

(A mistake I made is that) if you use a sudoers file to allow running a command as root without entering your password, you still need to prefix it with "sudo"; it just doesn't ask for the password. Did you leave in the "sudo"?

Woo! That does it. Thanks a lot, man!