How to disable sudo command in Terminal

Bad idea.
Only an Admin user can use sudo, so if you have users on your system that you do not want to use sudo, then do not give them an admin account, and do not give them the password for an admin account.

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Quit TextEdit, launch the Terminal app in /Utilities, copy & paste this one-liner into the window that pops up, hit the return key, quit the Terminal app, and restart.
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2. Run the 'Sudo -s' command
3. Enter the administrator password (in plain text)
and then
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I've included two examples. The preferred way & the hacker way.
with administrator
It is easier to diagnose problems with debug information. I suggest adding log statements to your script to see what is going on. Here is an example.
    Author: rccharles
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      1) Click on the Event Log tab to see the output from the log statement
      2) Click on Run
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    http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html
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This version has an inline password.
Notice the echo 'password' |
The single quotes are no accident.
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    Author: rccharles
    For testing, run in the Script Editor.
      1) Click on the Event Log tab to see the output from the log statement
      2) Click on Run
    For running shell commands see:
    http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html
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    log " --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "
    -- debug lines
    set unixDesktopPath to POSIX path of "/System/Library/User Template/"
    log "unixDesktopPath = " & unixDesktopPath
    set quotedUnixDesktopPath to quoted form of unixDesktopPath
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        log "ls -l error..." & errMsg
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me too have the same problem...
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After typing a sudo command on terminal how do you save it so you dont have to keep giving that same command every time I restart my mac??

I have a 45mb/s internet at home and my youtube videos load extremely slow, after reading many blogs and empting my cache cleaning my history I stumble across a post that told me i had to block two IP's on the terminal using this two commands: " sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 173.194.55.0/24 in" and "sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 206.111.0.0/16 in" that it should help. After I did that and restarted the mac those commads are undone. Is there a way to save thos commands tipped in the terminal??

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Sudo Command with installation

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I'm supposed to use the sudo command in terminal, which may lead to data loss. I'm pretty new to this sort of thing, so I would like to confirm that the text I am entering is safe, and only allows installation of the program:
sudo ln -s /Applications/Darwin/openmotif-2.2.3-universal /usr/OpenMotif
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1. Revokes the permissions the first command granted so that nothing else can take advantage of them.
2. Because it's making changes to system-level folders. This is the same reason why most of Apple's software updates require an administrator password.
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I want to disable 'Spotlight' for repairing my disk "Macintosh HD" , but somehow the command 'sudo mdutil -a -i off' does not work in 'Terminal'. I get result as ' bash: sudo: command not found' .I am using OS 10.10. Please help.

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Terminal doesn't understand sudo command

I am installing MacPorts 1.7.0 from a .dmg file. Following, I set up the environment variables in the .profile file, and tried to use Terminal to update using the sudo port selfupdate command from Terminal.
This is the result I got:
-bash: sudo: command not found
Why is this, and what can I do?

I think the error refers to the command(s) following "sudo." Were you prompted for your password?
No, that would be:
sudo fred
Password:
sudo: fred: command not found
But if the command bash is asked to execute is not found you get
fred
-bash: fred: command not found
So I think he is not finding sudo.
That makes me think that PATH has been messed up, because sudo is in /usr/bin/sudo which is always in PATH unless it has been messed up. Which makes me think that .profile was properly executed, and that is how PATH got messed up.
So I would look very closely at .profile and make sure PATH is setup correctly. I would expect it to looks something like:
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/local/bin"

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Or from where can I get help how to add commands to a script?
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Your best bet on getting a cogent answer is to post to the Unix forum under OS X Technologies.

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