Root access for Jupyter/iPython Notebook

Question

I'm trying to use the bash kernel in iPython/Jupyter notebook, but I need sudo access within the notebook itself.

I've tried $ sudo jupyter notebook to run the notebook as root, but that only returns:

$ jupyter: 'notebook' is not a Jupyter command

So, I'm left with running $ jupyter notebook (unless there's a way to run Jupyter notebook as root).

I also can't do su root in the notebook itself because that requires an input and the notebook won't let me give an input.

Finally, there is allegedly an --allow-root option for Jupyter notebook: http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config.html

However, it looks like --allow_root is no longer an option. (I've tried modifying the config file by adding NotebookApp.allow_root=True, but that doesn't work.)

Any ideas guys? Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Answer 1

Just login as root, then do the following command to start the notebook :

jupyter notebook --allow-root

Answer 2

The solution as described here. Is to use

sudo -E env "PATH=$PATH" jupyter notebook

Basically the binary to call jupyter notebook is in the user's PATH variable, but not for root.

Best regards.

Answer 3

Add c.NotebookApp.allow_root=True from the root configuration files. That you don't need ask to allow-rootevery time then you start the notebook.

Edit:

Before edit the configuration file you need to run jupyter notebook --generate-config as root to make the file.

Answer 4

I am running the neopixel library from a jupyter notebook.

The only thing that worked for me was first running the "sudo su" command to move into the root environment and then run "jupyter notebook" (--allow-root alone didn't work for me).