{"id":748,"date":"2007-03-21T18:49:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/sudo-as-a-standard-user-in-mac-os-x.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-21T22:53:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T22:53:24","slug":"running-sudo-as-a-standard-user-in-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/running-sudo-as-a-standard-user-in-mac-os-x.htm","title":{"rendered":"Running sudo as a standard user in Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\">Apple Mac OS X<\/a> has its roots in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darwin_%28operating_system%29\">a development of BSD Unix<\/a> and as such the command line should be pretty familiar to most Unix sysadmins.  It does have one significant security flaw though &#8211; the default privilege level for a user is admin (although, to be fair, that is not the same as <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=106290\">root, which needs to be enabled manually if required<\/a>). Such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/its-time-to-practice-safe-computing.htm\">routine use of administrative privileges is a dangerous practice<\/a> &#8211; one which many Mac users will be happy to criticise Windows for; however, unlike versions of Windows prior to Vista, it is perfectly easy to operate a Mac using the principle of least user privilege &#8211; indeed, I perform all of my Mac OS X activities as a standard user although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/mac-vs-pc.htm\">I&#8217;m asked to authenticate using an admin account for certain activities (in a similar manner to Windows Vista user access control)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than enabling root access, OS X uses the <code>sudo<\/code> command to temporarily escalate privileges when required in a terminal shell (<a href=\"http:\/\/linuxboxadmin.com\/articles\/sudo-vs-root.php\">Linux Box Admin has an interesting article comparing sudo with <code><\/code>root<\/a>); however, by default, <code>sudo<\/code> will not work for a standard user &#8211; when I tried to run <code>sudo <em>command<\/em><\/code> earlier today I got the following response:<\/p>\n<p><em>WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss<br \/>\nor the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your<br \/>\ntyping when using sudo. Type &#8220;man sudo&#8221; for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Password:<br \/>\n<\/em>username<em> is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I could edit \/etc\/sudoers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ducea.com\/2006\/05\/19\/linux-tips-the-proper-way-to-allow-regular-users-to-run-commands-as-root\/\">the guide at MDLog:\/sysadmin gives a good introduction to <code>sudo<\/code><\/a>) but I don&#8217;t know what security holes I might open in the process. One workaround is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spy-hill.com\/~myers\/help\/apple\/EnableRoot.html\">enable the root account and use <code>ssh root@localhost<\/code><\/a> but enabling root access is really an unnecessary step.  Instead, I prefer to use <code>su - <em>adminaccountname<\/em><\/code>, after which I can <code>sudo<\/code> the appropriate command(s) and <code>exit<\/code> to return to a standard shell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Mac OS X has its roots in a development of BSD Unix and as such the command line should be pretty familiar to most Unix sysadmins. 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