Hi,

One of my (most trusted) users will need to become root to run a set of maintenance tasks over the next few weeks. Rather then give away the root password I'd like to be able to run a bash shell through sudo.

I've edited the /etc/sudoers with the following extra line:


User1 ALL=/bin/bash


The problem is that we can now run bash as root WITHOUT typing is a password.

I thought the default was the opposite way round; the user would have to enter the password unless I add the "NOPASSWD: ALL" flag to the end of the line.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Are you running the sudo command as root or as User1? root will not be prompted for a password. User1 should.

You may try:
or to grant him everything:

Try placing this line before any lines that contain NOPASSWD

Hi,

I've made the changes you both suggest and it now works perfectly.

Thanks :^)