Looking for an elegant sudo solution

• EMBA

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I have a installer script which needs `sudo` to run properly. But some people already told me, that this is bad practice and I should only run needed commands with `sudo`. As far as my understanding is going, I can add `sudo` to the commands like `apt-get` and will be prompted for my password, if needed. Problem with this setup is: I want this script to be able to run without supervision and it takes quite some time (on a really decent machine about an hour) and therefore I have to watch it, to give it the password again, if needed. Second idea: Run it with `sudo` and for each command, which doesn't need root, I can run it with `su $(logname) -c "[command]"`. But both ideas aren't elegant and therefore I am asking you for improvement.

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