I wanted to use WP-CLI commands in my putty WordPress 5.5.1 & Ubuntu 20.04 Droplet but “When I use Wp commands without –allow-root then It shows an error that you are accessing as the root user,” and I know it’s un-secure to use –allow-root. Please Can anyone help me in accessing wp commands in my Putty without –allow-root.
2 Answers
You can do is to create an additional user and switch to it in order to use the wp-cli
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Please upvote my answer and mark it as solution :) so users can benifit Commented Oct 18, 2020 at 13:01
If you're logged in as root or sudo and want an easy way to use the wp commands without having to manually switch to another user (etc) you can create a shell function.
See Tom's answer here: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/424419/152624
function noroot() {
sudo -EH -u "webuser" "$@";
}
noroot wp post list # <- runs as webuser not root
Or, just make an alias for wp in your .bashrc or such so that wp actually means:
alias wp='sudo -u [non-root-user-here] wp'
rootthe only user on your droplet? You could (and probably should) create a less-powerful user, give it write access to your website, and thensu {username}and usewpas that user instead.root, you should be able to dosu {username}where{username}is the username you set up. If you're root, it shouldn't ask you for a password.