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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:41:39 -0400
From:      Matt Garber <matt.garber@gmail.com>
To:        ari@ish.com.au
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Run script as root without sudo
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> That would require root to put the file there and then to reboot the
> machine.
>
> Ari



As these are EC2 instances, you should be able to use user-data provided to
the instance’s configinit (like cloud-init) with firstboot_pkgs_list=“sudo”
similar to Colin’s example here[1], and then run your script(s) using sudo
like you originally expected to.

[1]: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2013-12-09-FreeBSD-EC2-configinit.html


Thanks,
—Matt

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