Bash script as root problem

[Bill K. Dengler]

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A little hacky but what about
sudo command_0
sudo command_1
sudo command_2
sudo command_3
sudo command_4
sudo command_5
sudo command_6
su -c "command_7" $USER
sudo command_8
sudo command_9

Bill
On 03/16/2013 06:23 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2013/3/16 Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>:
>> Maybe by tweaking sudo: create a user, add it to sudoers and
>> allow him to run only the commands you want.
> 
> I'm not sure how that is going to solve the problem, but maybe
> that's because I am not very good at this.
> 
> This is what my problem looks like:
> 
> MyScript.sh: #!/bin/bash
> 
> Command_0 Command_1 Command_2 Command_3 Command_4 Command_5 
> Command_6 Command_7 Command_8 Command_9 # End of script
> 
> Run the script: sudo ./MyScript.sh
> 
> Now all of the ten commands runs as root, right? But let's assume
> that I want Command_7 to run as user. Like this: MyScript.sh: 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> sudo Command_0 sudo Command_1 sudo Command_2 sudo Command_3 sudo
> Command_4 sudo Command_5 sudo Command_6 Command_7 sudo Command_8 
> sudo Command_9 # End of script
> 
> Run the script: ./MyScript.sh
> 
> I heard somewhere, though, that running commands with sudo in a
> script is not the recommended way to do it. So I guess I need
> something like this (written in some kind of pseudo code): 
> MyScript.sh: #!/bin/bash
> 
> Command_0 Command_1 Command_2 Command_3 Command_4 Command_5 
> Command_6 sudonot Command_7 # don't run this command as root 
> Command_8 Command_9 # End of script
> 
> Run the script: sudo ./MyScript.sh
> 
> 
> Johnny Rosenberg
> 
>> 
>> Amichai.
>> 
>> Sent from my Android Smartphone
>> 
>> On Mar 16, 2013 11:35 PM, "Johnny Rosenberg"
>> <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a bash script that I am going to run as root (sudo 
>>> script_name), but in that script there is a line that I want to
>>> be executed as a regular user. Is that possible or do I need to
>>> do it the other way around, that is enter sudo at the beginning
>>> of every line except the one that I need to be run as a user?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>> 
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