How Can I Pass an Alias to Sudo?
I Have Tried Putting My Aliases in ~/. Bash_Profile, ~/. Bashrc, /Etc/Profile, and /Etc/Bashrc. I Am Still Unable to Execute the Following: Alias Zf2="Php...
I have tried putting my aliases in ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, /etc/profile, and /etc/bashrc.
I am still unable to execute the following:
alias zf2="php public/index.php"
and then execute:
sudo zf2 orm:info
The issue seems to be that I am unable to specify an alias as a command using visudo-- which causes a syntax error.
So I am unable to call:
sudo zf2 orm:info
However, I was able to create a script at /usr/share/scripts/zf2 which contains:
#!/bin/bash
alias zf2="php public/index.php"
zf2 $1
and add this script as the command in visudo. When this script is in the end user's PATH I am able to execute
zf2 orm:info
I have different aliases like zf2 that I need to expose to the end user. I would prefer to maintain alias instead of a collection of scripts.
1 Answer
Ironically, the solution is to call sudo from an alias.
alias sd="sudo "
Note: While not recommended, you could name the alias sudo: alias sudo="sudo "
Bash Reference Manual (Aliases)
If the last character of the alias value is a blank, then the next command word following the alias is also checked for alias expansion.
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