Thread: Desktop Command Execution Widget scripts
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2010-03-08 , 12:54
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#176
Originally Posted by Alan_Peery View Post
You want edit /etc/sudoers, and add an appropriate line. Be careful, this is the file that makes "sudo gainroot" and a lot of other things work.
And me I guess you should then put the 'sudo' to the beginning of the line (or even call 'su' instead). Piping the empty output of a not allowed command to 'sudo gainroot' seems quite useless to me.

sudo echo 2 > /sys/class/backlight/acx565akm/brightness