You could use the sudo NOPASSWD directive (using visudo), e.g. something like:
myuser ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/ifconfig
then "sudo ifconfig" should work without a password. Note that this must come after any other visudo definitions for that user.
Simon
On 08/06/17 11:32, Mark Rogers wrote:
Is there an easy was to launch a process with sudo and send it into the background?
$ sudo myapp & .. will go straight into the background then stop, waiting for a password to be entered. So I have to bring it back to the foreground (fg), enter the password, stop it (ctrl-z) then send it back into the background (bg).
Of-course what normally happens is that I don't realise it's stopped at all, only to come back several hours after a long process should have been running to find it hasn't yet started....
I'm sure there's a better way?
Mark