Re: I need to be root to run this script

To: kaye n <guikaye@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: I need to be root to run this script
From: Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:33:01 -0500
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kaye n wrote: 
> I don't understand why adding the line:
> 
> kaye ALL= /usr/local/bin/backlight-brightness
> 
> in
> 
> /etc/sudoers.d/10-installer
> 
> of my Debian system does not work.

Because you used the wrong format.

kaye ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/backlight-brightness

is probably what you want.

-dsr-

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