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	ejasmudar	2011-03-05 , 05:20
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Originally Posted by mece

without any modifications to sudoers and whatnot you can use run-standalone.sh like this:

sudo /usr/bin/run-standalone.sh /path/to/runthisscriptasroot.sh

That will run "runthisscriptasroot.sh" as root.

EDIT:
tested it with this script:

#!/bin/sh
whoami > whoami.txt

works

Hmm, i am also having a similiar problem,
I tried

Code:

sudo /usr/bin/run-standalone.sh /opt/script.sh

but i am getting error:

Code:

standalone.sh: line 11: /opt/script.sh:permission denied.

Please help

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	Tiboric	2011-03-05 , 05:43
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sudo run-standalone.sh /opt/shortcutmkr/main.py

is how i launch SCM with root privileges also have to

sudo chmod +x main.py

to get it to run.

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	ejasmudar	2011-03-05 , 07:44
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Originally Posted by Tiboric;961024[CODE

]sudo chmod +x main.py[/CODE]
to get it to run.

So do i make it so that sudo chmod +x script.sh is done automatically after install? I am trying to make a deb package

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CharlesM	2011-03-05 , 08:52
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as root

chown root YOURFILE
chmod 4775 YOURFILE

voila!

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	ejasmudar	2011-03-05 , 09:29
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Originally Posted by CharlesM

as root

chown root YOURFILE
chmod 4775 YOURFILE

voila!

Yes, but these commands have to be performed by the users right?

What I want is, after instaling the deb file, the users should be able to start the app normally but it should have root priviledges. For refrerence, this are the scripts that I am planning to make into a package.
So, while creating the deb file, in the .desktop file, for exec=, what command should I give? Right now i tried with

Code:

sudo run-stanalone.sh /opt/script.sh

But no luck.

Am I doing something glaringly obvious and dumb here?

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	ejasmudar	2011-03-09 , 03:37
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OK, i have finally figured out how to run some of scripts as root, when started by user.
I have a bunch of 5 scripts, with a main script acting as the menu or gateway. The main script is launched normally via an icon as

Code:

sh parentscript.sh

in that script, it calls the other scripts as

Code:

sudo run-standalone.sh sh childscript1.sh

This methodology seems to be working for me. But one the users of this app is having a problem that xterm is asking for password on execution of sudo run-standalon.sh.

Can anybody help us?

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kitwalker	2011-03-09 , 04:02
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There's another method that works great which I saw based on this:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=16

From the above link (disable_ts.zip)

If you put this in a script file:

Code:

sh -c 'echo "sleep 1; echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/omap2_mcspi.1/spi1.0/disable_ts" | sudo gainroot'

echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/omap2_mcspi.1/spi1.0/disable_ts should fail as permission denied if executed as normal user since it is modifying a sysfs file. But the above method of piping to sudo gainroot works!

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	ejasmudar	2011-03-09 , 04:50
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Hey thanks a lot! piping the command to sudo gainroot works like a charm!

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	Tiboric	2011-03-09 , 05:38
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Originally Posted by ejasmudar

So do i make it so that sudo chmod +x script.sh is done automatically after install? I am trying to make a deb package

yes in your postinstall script

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ovekaaven	2011-03-16 , 23:02
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Setting permissions in the postinst is a band-aid. The correct permissions should already have been in the packed deb, i.e. the permissions should preferably be set in debian/rules or other makefile/buildscript, not in the package postinst.

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