Use sudo with password as parameter

Question

I would like to run sudo with my password as parameter so that I can use it for a script  I tried  sudo -S mypassword execute command   but without any success  Any suggestions

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echo -e  YOURPASSWORD n    sudo -S yourcommand

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The -S switch makes sudo read the password from STDIN  This means you can do   echo mypassword   sudo -S command   to pass the password to sudo  However  the suggestions by others that do not involve passing the password as part of a command such as checking if the user is root are probably much better ideas for security reasons

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You can set the s bit for your script so that it does not need sudo and runs as root  and you do not need to write your root password in the script    sudo chmod  s myscript

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Make sure only root can run our script if      id -u       0     then    echo  This script must be run as root  1 gt  amp 2    exit 1 fi

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One option is to use the -A flag to sudo   This runs a program to ask for the password   Rather than ask  you could have a script that just spits out the password so the program can continue

[linux] Use sudo with password as parameter

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