Executing a sudo command like "sudo -v" about sudo-prompt

[jorangreef]

Thanks @theskyliner !

If I understand correctly, do you want to do the following?

# Get the sudo session established for the next few minutes:
sudo -v
# Run the following script without sudo for the most part.
# Within this script there is a command prefixed with sudo to restart apache.
./phpswitch.sh 70

[NickHatBoecker]

Yup, thats exactly what I meant

[jorangreef]

sudo-prompt already does an equivalent of sudo -v when it runs, to try and keep the user's sudo session alive for the next time exec() is called. However, TTY tickets are now enabled by default from macOS Sierra on, so this does not help since each exec() call is run in a new TTY.

I would recommend extracting the sudo command from your script and running it using sudo-prompt, e.g.:

./phpswitch.sh 70
sudo.exec('restart apache')