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How do you automatically elevate an automatic task to root privileges or is there an alternative approach?

I'm trying to write, in essence, an automatic deployment script for use by our development team and I know I can set up SSH to use keys so that I can automatically authenticate via key instead of ...
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Execute shell script from php, as root user?

Need to execute the following line from PHP: $res = shell_exec('sudo sh /home/nicklas/cronjobs/make_account.sh username password'); The problem is nothing happens on execution. If i try to ...
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Should I be using 'sudo' in scripts that I write?

I'm setting up a new machine (well actually, an Ubuntu VM) and am trying to write a script to setup a few common things that I use when doing this (Git, curl, vim + janus). So my script looks a bit ...
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su options - running command as another user

I was wondering how to run a command as another user from a script. I have the script's owner set as root. I also have the following command being run within the script to run the command as the ...