Put simply, Whenever somebody logs onto the family computer that I manage, I get bugged about updates and "could you install x thing that I saw in the store" and such. How would I enable all users to run flatpak, snap, and plasma-discover without root? All questions about this that I have seen previously seen only cover running one command without root access. How to run a specific program as root without a password prompt? does not answer my question as it addresses allowing a user to run a single program without root access.
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You can use sudo for that. You can specify what users are allowed to run commands, what commands can be executed, and whether to ask for a password of not. See the manual for details.
If you don't want to that users have to type sudo in front of the commands, create aliases in /etc/profile for the commands that will run the commands with sudo.
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man sudoat the command prompt, or you can type "man sudo" into Google.If you can't find a man page yourself, you shouldn't run programs as root. – RalfFriedl Jul 31 '19 at 05:45 -
been linuxing for a while, and nobody, NOBODY, has mentioned man as a command, making me think it was another name for a readme – Virtual Ghost Aug 06 '19 at 06:58
myusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /path/to/executable1, /path/to/executable2, /path/to/executable3, ...– Jeff Schaller Jul 21 '19 at 13:09