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I don't understand. Why do you think prompting a password is dangerous? If you want to login without password, you can add the line below to /etc/sudoers:
# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move
# it further down)
%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
Its pretty self explanatory.
Just put a # in from of %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
should look like this
Quote:
# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move
# it further down)
#%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
Good luck to you.
Last edited by jmc1987; 09-04-2010 at 06:29 AM.
Reason: had to fix an error
This also means he can't sudo at all, which can be inconvenient.
If you still want sudo to work, but to prompt for a password, just remove the NOPASSWD: part (so its just %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL).
# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move
# it further down)
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
This is my /etc/sudoers and I use my pass when I sudo. I have been using ubuntu 9.04 as my desktop late
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