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How to safely pass variables to root-enabled scripts?

This question is totally general and not only applicable to my situation, but... I have a small busybox appliance where I want a non-root user to be able to execute a particular script with root ...
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Why doesn't “sudo su” in a shell script run the rest of the script as root?

A sample script can be as below: #!/bin/bash sudo su ls /root When using ./test.sh as the normal user, instead run ls as super user and exit, it switches to root; and when I logout, it executes ls ...
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Allow users to run only specific binaries with root permissions/privileges

I would like to allow a specific user to be able to sudo /sbin/iptables only. I have a bash script which configures iptables. The problem is that configuring /sbin/iptables as sudoable is not enough ...
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How to solve sudo: unable to execute /bin/ls: Argument list too long

When I run this command from php sudo -u db2inst1 ls -t /var/lib/edumate/bdrs/*/*/daily/*NODE* | sort -r I receive sudo: unable to execute /bin/ls: Argument list too long ls lists all daily backup ...
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How does having /dev/fd make running shell scripts under sudo safe?

At the end of the man page for sudo, there's the following remark: Running shell scripts via sudo can expose the same kernel bugs that make setuid shell scripts unsafe on some operating systems ...
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Default fedora 15 install, how do you get a network drive to mount after login?

I am running a default fedora 15 install. My goal is to have a couple of network drives get mounted right after the user logs in graphically (not via ssh). The script I want to execute is basically ...
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chmod and chown not working in sudo called script

Based on this Serverfault question, my git user has permission in sudoers to run a wrapper script to move files into my webroot with git. Everything is working fine except for the chmod and chown ...
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Cannot enter in centOS with any user

I am using cent OS Operating system without GNOME. In the starting, it asks localhost login: Password: It has one user named service under group name service whose password is also service. I ...