Hello,

I am trying to setup the sudo command. I know that I have to edit the sudoers file with visudo. When I added the following line, I get prompted for a password. From reading docs, I thought the password that I have to enter is the user who has acces for the command. Please can you help.

Below is my sudoers file:

user1 ALL=/sbin/shutdown
user2 ALL=/bin/mount

When, I type "sudo /bin/mount" or "sudo /sbin/shutdown" i have to enter a password. And the only password that works is the root password. Is there a way to fix this? I know that I can use the "NOPASSWD" however, I would like to get prompted for the "user's" password inorder to execute the command.

-X

My computer asks me for the users password... that's a bit odd. I assume you are running sudo as "user2" and "user1" respectively?

that is correct. do you have any ideas?

I don't know if this will help, but I am running suse 9.1 pro.

I believe what you need is to add something called ' targetpw ' to your sudoers file. I have never used this option but search the google for it. Some info in man pages. Couple items here at this forum as well. If you figure it out post back here.

Brian1
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well...thank you for your help brian1. i had to comment-out targetpw from the sudoers file:
below are the lines that i commented out, and then it worked! :-)

# Defaults targetpw # ask for the password of the target user i.e. root
# %users ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING! Only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'!

thanks again for your help!

Glad to be of help there. Seeing how that works I may make the change to my setup for a learning experience. No one else uses my system but it is nice to know one can do this so no one has root's password and don't need nopasswd option.

Thanks for the knowledge there XaVlaR
Brian1