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I need to manually create a directory using the following command in a cronjob and not have to enter in a password:

sudo mkdir /fold1/

I have read that I should not edit /etc/sudoers directly.

What are my options?

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  • What does your system administrator say about editing /etc/sudoers? Do they prefer to use a file in /etc/sudoers.d/ ? Do you need to use sudo without changing the existing sudoers privileges? Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 14:21
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    Why do you need to use sudo inside the cron job? Does your system not support running cron jobs as other users (via /etc/crontab, or sudo crontab -e for example)? Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 14:24
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    Often "I should not edit /etc/sudoers directly" means simply "I have to use the visudo command to edit /etc/sudoers". Please check man visudo. Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 14:44
  • You asked explicitly about cronjob why this is not a direct answer. But you could serialze it via systemd-unit and set the run-user to root. Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 19:57

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Add the script to root's cronjob:

sudo crontab -e

You need to be a sudoer to run the above command. You also will still have to cd to the correct directory inside your script to create your new directory in the right location.

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