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I would need to run "sudo su" in a script (.sh), but how can I include the password it needs? (No need to worry about security, the script will not launch nuclear weapons... ; )

What do you think about this?

sudo visudo
Where username is the user who executes the script.

xeno74 wrote:What do you think about this?

sudo visudo

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username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Where username is the user who executes the script.

Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately, it works only partially... If I open a Term window, I can now use 'sudo su' without password. But the script where I have 'sudo su' on the first line still doesn't work, except from 'root'. Is there a way to get some output from a script, error messages etc.?

Why sudo su? You can execute your script with sudo.

xeno74 wrote:Why sudo su? You can execute your script with sudo.

When I first tested the individual commands for the script in a terminal, one of them needed that I use "sudo su". Plain "sudo" was not able to run it. So I thought I have to have 'sudo su' as the first command in the script!

But only after reading your comment above I understood that you speak about a different, "two-layer" approach, where the primary script is run via an auxiliary script with "sudo script_name". That indeed works and solved the problem - thank you !-)