I have a additional questions regarding SSH keys:
If you connect using SSH with SSH keys and run commands which require sudo privileges, how do you do this? With a password, you would run the sudo command and enter a pwd for more privileges, but how to do this in a script?

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Welcome.

You'll have to work through it in several steps, first manually then in a more automated fashion. You'll probably want to make a separate key for this activity, then add command="sudo something in the public key which you've placed in authorized_keys on the server. For that, see the manual page for sshd in the section on "authorized_keys file format"

When that works manually, modify /etc/sudoers so that the command with its specific parameters (and only those parameters) can be run with no password. For that see the manual page for sudoers

And if you need more background, ask here. But also spend the time to go through the book sudo Mastery by Michael W Lucas or else his presentation:

• sudo: you're doing it wrong (slides)
• sudo: you're doing it wrong (video)

The idea is to use sudo with the least amount of privilege possible to get the job done.

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Guess the actual question is: how to configure /etc/sudoers
Here is an example:
user teddy might execute the listed commands without password; e.gm sudo /sbin/halt (resulting /sbin/halt as root)

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Thank you both, this helped me a lot. I wasn't sure if I had to modify sudoers, but it seems the way to go.