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;-) True, but some commands, even though they require root, aren't
dangerous for users to run on a desktop/laptop.  In those cases why
bother forcing them to use sudo... just do it automagically for them and
let sudo prompt them for a passwd according to settings in sudoers.  Let
sudo be the gatekeeper, not the bash command line.

> > 2) Is this something bash completion could accomplish?
> 
> I don't think so.  But it might be possible to write a wrapper script
> that takes user input, passes it to bash, then passes the bash output
> back to the user.  For each user input command, if it starts with
> 'sudo', store the command in a hashtable.  If it doesn't start with
> sudo, then see if the command is in the hashtable.  If it is, prepend
> 'sudo ' before passing it to bash.  I don't know how well that would
> work with pipes though.

Excellent idea.  A bash wrapper. perhaps I'll call it "subash".  ;-)  

-Jim P.








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