#Sudo password for install#
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#Sudo password for mac#

#Sudo password for code#

Such an error may be annoying to someone starting out hacking code on Linux

#Sudo password for software#

Installation of software in Linux such as installing MongoDB database locally, without the correct permissions, Linux will deny to perform this action as such an action needs jumped up privileges. You may as well need to edit configuration files of installed softwares.

#Sudo password for install#

Most of the times as a programmer using Linux, you will use the command line to perform operations like moving and renaming files, install software, etc. Many programmers and developers tend to choose Linux OS over the other OSes because it allows them to work more effectively and quickly, considering that, Linux just gives you much more control over your tools, hardware and overall work environment.Įvery developer must not use Linux as there are distributions that are really user friendly and you don’t need to have intricate knowledge of the system, but with the mentioned advantages of Linux including its malleability, It will surely be a good reason to give Linux a try. Rest everything I am doing is to resolve it only.Linux has, in recent years, become the leading operating system on servers. Summary: Basically my main problem is shown in the first output which says E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?. I think I have tried almost everything released to this issue(which might not be true at all, as there must be some solution for this, I believe). Now I am fed up and unable to think of any other possible ways to fix this.

But it still showing me the Output 3 only So I tried using another way which is mentioned here using dscl. Please note: I have also used the way which is mentioned hereīut, I found that usermod is not there for macOS. password for gitlab-runner: Sorry, try again. Output 3: Fetching changes with git depth set to 20. Please note: I have saved $password_secret in Gitlab variables and it's value is $cret as someone on google said this can be it's value. So, to resolve this, I used sudo -S su < $password_secret as shown: # Is performed before the scripts in the stages step It says sudo: a terminal is required to read the password either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper sudo: a password is required

Sudo: a terminal is required to read the password either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper Output 2: Getting source from Git repositoryįetching changes with git depth set to 20. But with the above change, I started to get this issue. Where I am trying to remove /var/cache/apt/archives/lock and /var/lib/dpkg/lock, as this is what I found on Google. So to resolve the above issue, I thought to change the brefore_script part with this # Is performed before the scripts in the stages step Which says E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root? $ apt-get install -y libncurses5-dev libglib2.0-dev libgeoip-dev libtokyocabinet-dev zlib1g-dev libncursesw5-dev libbz2-devĮ: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)Į: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?Ĭleaning up project directory and file based variables Of course, the best option is to pipe the password from a secure file.

Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/gitlab-runner/builds/GJ7z2Aym/0/edge_release_management/.git/Įxecuting 'step_script' stage of the job script If you decided to use the 'echo sudo -S' option, to avoid exposing the password on the command history, start the command with a SPACE character.

Output 1: Fetching changes with git depth set to 20. The problem I initially getting with the above gitlab-ci.yml file was: # The files which are to be made available in GitLab # This stage is only executed for new tags apt-get install -y libncurses5-dev libglib2.0-dev libgeoip-dev libtokyocabinet-dev zlib1g-dev libncursesw5-dev libbz2-dev # Defines stages which are to be executed My first gitlab-ci.yml file was(which is just given there on the official link of gitlab I provided above): # Is performed before the scripts in the stages step

#Sudo password for mac#

PS: I am using mac andįollowing this official link by gitlab to get my task done I am new to gitlab runners and trying to automate my project so that whenever a new tag is released, it should build a new deb package.