Require a password once for certain commands about m-cli HOT 5 CLOSED

Looked into the source code for hostname and came up with something that could work (based on this answer in SO:

sudo sh -c 'scutil --get ComputerName | awk '\''{print "ComputerName: ", $1}'\''
scutil --get HostName | awk '\''{print "HostName: ", $1}'\''
scutil --get LocalHostName | awk '\''{print "LocalHostName: ", $1}'\''
defaults read /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server NetBIOSName | awk '\''{print "NetBIOSName: " $1}'\'''

I imagine there might be a more elegant way of doing this, but I'm still learning bash 😃

Thoughts?

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Hello @clarkio , this is related to sudo and it can be configured in your sudo config file, you should add a line like this one

YOURUSER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

And unfortunately most of commands requires permissions

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@rgcr thanks for the quick response.

Sorry for the potentially noob question, but can you elaborate more on what that will do? Does it essentially turn off any need for a password for my user account when root level commands are executed? If so, what if someone prefers a password to still be required for such commands due to security concerns?

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@clarkio, You can use PASSWD and NOPASSWD to specify whether the user has to enter a password or not.

And you are right, it will be annoying put the password multiple times, I have to improve that 👍

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As a quick workaround I've removed sudo in the commands that show the hostname

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