I want to autorun a script when I insert my USB-drive and I have successfully done that, only one problem... I want it to run as root automatically, without a popup asking me for the password. How can I do this?
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Re: Autorun script as root?
the proper way to do this would probably be to add some
directive in the /etc/sudoers (see "man sudoers") file
to exempt that specific command from asking the password.
another way is to have your script belong to root:root
and set the "set user id" bit to the permission mask.
this probably raises some security issues, but
maybe someone has a better idea...Code:chown root:root <path_to_your_script> chmod 750 <path_to_your_script> chmod u+s <path_to_your_script>
this is what crops up to my mind at this time at night...
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Re: Autorun script as root?
The security issues are about the same for either method.
What's the goal of the script, by the way? (I ask because there might be a safer way to do it.)For external use only.Comment
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Re: Autorun script as root?
What the script does is mount two truecrypt encrypted drives. Right now the script is on my hard drive, but I would also like it to be on the USB-drive, so when I insert my USB-memory it acts like a key and the script on the USB-memory is executed after the USB-memory is mounted. Can I do this?Comment
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