Simon Willison’s Weblog

13th February 2022

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TIL Enabling a user to execute a specific command as root without a password — I wanted a script running as a non-root user to be able to restart a systemd service on my Ubuntu machine without needing a password.

Posted 13th February 2022 at 7:53 pm

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