Bash script that login root and execute commands [SOLVED]

[veleno]

Hi Folks!! New here but old in Linux, first of all, as by rules, I searched for my question without find something similar so I'm opening this new thread hoping in some suggestion/help:
I'd like to create a bash script that I launch as normal user, ask me root password and if it's correct execute: apt update && apt upgrade && apt autoremove.
I tried different ways but unsuccesfully!
Ex I tried:
$ gedit update.bash

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#!bin/bash
sudo root
apt update && apt upgrade && apt autoremove


# chmod +x update.bash

or I also tried:

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#!bin/bash
su - && update && apt upgrade && apt autoremove
exit


Please, any suggestion/help?
Thank you so much!!

[Bloom]

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#!/bin/bash
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt autoremove


This will ask your password once and do the two others without asking it again: Debian caches the sudo password during 5 minutes so you can do other sudo tasks without having to type the password over and over again.

[arochester]

Have to installed sudo and added yourself to the sudo list?

[veleno]

@Bloom: thank you for your answer!! I did it but it asks me my pw instead of root pw!! I don't have and I don't want my user in sudo list (or I must have it?)

@arochester: thank you for your answer!! is it mandatory to do that if I want to do the script? I'd like to leave my user outside sudoers

[pylkko]

there is also a package called "unattended-upgrades" for, well unattended upgrades'. This is not an answer to exactly what you ask, but you can run commands as other users. So you can set up a systemd timer to automatically run commands as root (no sudo needed)

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

[Bloom]

@Bloom: thank you for your answer!! I did it but it asks me my pw instead of root pw!! I don't have and I don't want my user in sudo list (or I must have it?)

Then use this:

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su -c 'apt update && apt upgrade && apt autoremove'


[veleno]

@Bloom: thank you for your answer!! I did it but it asks me my pw instead of root pw!! I don't have and I don't want my user in sudo list (or I must have it?)

Then use this:

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su -c 'apt update && apt upgrade && apt autoremove'


Super Bloom!!! Top top top!!! Thank you so much!!