What do you mean by "not require sudo privileges"?

Do you mean not require root permissions? that depends on what are you trying to do. You'll need to make changes in your system to allow normal users to have permissions for it, and in many cases that's not possible (or very safe).

If what you mean is that you don't want to need to type"sudo" every time, but still be able to have the commands run with root permissions, then there's multiple ways to do this:

• Add an alias such as alias command='sudo command'. If you don't want to type the password, you can change the sudores file so that your user doesn't need to enter a password when running sudo for that command (someone else in the comments already explained how to do that, using an entry with NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/command in the sudoers config).

• alternatively: set the SUID bit of the executable you want to run, so that every time the file is executed (by anyone) it will always execute as the user who owns the file (so if the owner is root, the file will always be executed as root)... this is not something I'd recommend though, since it can lead to security vulnerabilities.

You can change the permission of the files that are used to execute, and you can change permission of the files that are being touched.

But probably the easiest solution would be to create an alias to the command that uses sudo transparent to the user, while also adding the permission to sudo without password in the sudoers file.

So, you mean that you want specific users who don't have "sudo" in their list of supplemental groups in /etc/group to also be able to invoke specific commands with sudo, but not arbitrary ones? Sure, you can do that.

The line in /etc/sudoers in Debian that lets members of group "sudo" run arbitrary commands with "sudo" is this:

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

But you can have individual users in there too. Here's an example of setting a specific user to being able to run the whoami command and apt command as root, without requiring a password to do so:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/sudo-privileges-user

baeldung ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt, /usr/bin/whoami

If you're gonna modify /etc/sudoers, though, use visudo to do so:

$ sudo visudo

You can do that in the sudoers file. I don't know how exactly, but that won't be too hard to search for.

This does seem to be exactly what i am looking for. I implemented this and tested it and the command still isn't working yet but i will keep troubleshooting, its probably a silly quirk on my end. Thank you very much!