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I want to be able to run a sudo command inside of a bash script but I was wondering what if I want any user in my server to be able to execute the script without to provide them with my root password, is this possible?

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You'd want to configure sudo to allow any user to execute the command that you want them to be able to execute via the shell script (without a password). Then if the user runs the script, the script will run sudo as that user, and sudo will validate the execution of the command. –  Andy Dalton yesterday

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Try to define it in the sudo configuration (/etc/sudoers) for your script:

ortega ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /path-to-your-script
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Any user, not just ortega –  roaima yesterday
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Just replace by ortega with ALL and it should work for all users. –  Marco yesterday
    
Thanks for your response Marco but I can't get it to work: I get this error when I try to execute it as a normal user: ls: cannot open directory /var/lib/php5: Permission denied This is what I put in sudoers file: ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/user/asd.sh and these are the permissions of the file: -rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 20 Sep 14 16:02 asd.sh –  Saul Ortega yesterday
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Did you sudo the script? Or just type the scripts name? –  Canadian Luke yesterday
    
I didn't, Thanks @CanadianLuke! that worked –  Saul Ortega yesterday

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