Can anyone help me out on running an app as sudo on Ubuntu 19.10? Trying to get Visual Studio Code to run as sudo, but - not coming right, google not helping much - everything I find refers to locations that don't exist, or don't have the required files.
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Ubuntu 19.10 - edit files owned by root
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SauRoNZA
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It should be in your path so simply go to the terminal and do “sudo vmstudio” or whatever it’s call.
Try type visual and hit tab to get the name of the binary.
Why do you need to do this though? If it needs privileges it should simply pop up with the password prompt.
Try type visual and hit tab to get the name of the binary.
Why do you need to do this though? If it needs privileges it should simply pop up with the password prompt.
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Is this the instructions you followed?
code.visualstudio.com
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RyanPCMR
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Make sure that your user is part of the sudo group.
Also you should check that your have snap installed on your Linux by ensuring snapd is installed.
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Doesn't work. Still get prompted for username and password.
sudo code ---> then once open, try and save the file, and it prompts to retry as superuser.
Don't think I want my useraccount in the group permanently.
Is this the instructions you followed?
Installing Visual Studio Code on Linux
Install Visual Studio Code on Linux with Debian, RPM, Snap, Arch, or Nix package options.
Yip - installing's not the problem...
Will have a look.
Two of the files I occasionally edit are owned by root - if I change their ownesrhip, it screws with the service (home-assistant).
SauRoNZA
Honorary Master
So the problem is the file you are editing not the application.
Why do you need to edit files owned by root? And if you really need to can you give them other access or simply add your user to the group the files are assigned to instead?
Why do you need to edit files owned by root? And if you really need to can you give them other access or simply add your user to the group the files are assigned to instead?
SauRoNZA
Honorary Master
So don’t change their ownership.
Give yourself access to them.
Either add yourself to the group that owns the files (more secure).
Or open the permissions up so that you have access to it from any other user.
Or much simpler....don’t use Visual Studio and learn to vi or at worst nano.
sudo vi nameoffile
Will most definitely work.
If you really want to gui...
sudo gedit nameoffile
Otherwise if you want to go the permissions route...
ls -l nameoffile
IF you are the only user accessing this box and it’s only running at home and you are never going to apply any of this logic in a production system them simply do...
chmod 777 nameoffile
Now do...
ls -l nameoffile
You’ll notice that on the left it’s gone from rwx / rwx / r_x
To
rwx / rwx / rwx
Basically that reads as..
Owner / Group / Other
By doing chmod 777 you change the last Other bit so all users now have full access to it for writing not just reading and executing.
Not secure in general but probably just fine in your use case.
Otherwise you can add your own user to the group that has permission (likely root). OR you assign the file to a group where your user is already included.
The latter is the better way and won’t break anything as root remains the owner.
Basically you are looking for completely the wrong solution due to a fundamental lack of Linux understanding at present. Once you get the permissions structure it will make more sense.
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This ^
Why would you want to do that?
Rather open VSC normally. You can then open the file(s) ( required by sudo ), and when you save them, it will pop up and ask if you want to save it as sudo and enter the password and save.
This won't change any rights.
Rather open VSC normally. You can then open the file(s) ( required by sudo ), and when you save them, it will pop up and ask if you want to save it as sudo and enter the password and save.
This won't change any rights.
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SauRoNZA
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There are other similar things as well.
But try Nano.
or Gedit as well.
Although I work on most of these things remotely so command line is my only option. In the GUI flesh I would likely gravitate towards IDEA instead.