Re: Run script as root without sudo

Reply: Aristedes Maniatis via freebsd-stable : "Re: Run script as root without sudo"
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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc_at_chen.org.nz>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:16:32 UTC

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 17:33, Aristedes Maniatis via freebsd-stable
<freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> wrote:
[...]
> How else can I get this script running as root remotely in a completely
> unattended way?

The way it's usually done is with an rc script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, eg:
  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/myscript

and add the entry into /etc/rc.conf:
  myscript_enable="YES"

The FreeBSD AWS instances uses this method to auto-install required packages.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>