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Zainab
Zainab

Reputation: 21

sudo asks for password in cronjob script but the same script works without password in terminal

I have added a script in /etc/sudoers file.

user ALL=(ALL)     NOPASSWD:/home/user/project/execute.sh

After that I have added the same script in users crontab as shown below:

*/1 * * * * /home/user/project/execute.sh > /home/user/cronjob-logs/`date +\%FT\%T`-cron.log 2>&1

There is a command in the script which can only be run using sudo. But since I added the script in sudoers file, it works in the terminal without password. But it throws "permission denied" error in crontab. Can anyone please help? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1912

Answers (1)

Zainab
Zainab

Reputation: 21

I was able to solve the issue by adding sudo before the script in crontab as shown below:

*/1 * * * * sudo /home/user/project/execute.sh > /home/user/cronjob-logs/date +\%FT\%T-cron.log 2>&1

Upvotes: 1

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