No password for sudo?

orange400 · 05-08-2006, 11:06 AM

How would I setup my user and system so that I wouldn't have to input my password when I sudo?

Thanks!

ioerror · 05-08-2006, 11:08 AM

You put "NOPASSWD:" before the list of commands, like it says in the man page.

orange400 · 05-08-2006, 11:32 AM

I ran visudo as root and added NOPASSWD: before my username, as it is the only entry in there besides root, and it said that there was a syntax error. I'm not entirely sure what you mean, can you explain with a little more detail please?

Thank you for your help!

ioerror · 05-08-2006, 12:09 PM

NOPASSWD goes before the list of commands, after your username and host list. The man page has this example:

Quote:

ray rushmore = NOPASSWD: /bin/kill, /bin/ls, /usr/bin/lprm

orange400 · 05-11-2006, 12:11 PM

What if I would like a user to execute any command with sudo?

I'm not sure what man page you are referencing, I haven't seen this information anywhere :P

ioerror · 05-11-2006, 02:05 PM

You can use the ALL keyword, e.g.

Quote:

joe host_alias = ALL

Note that this is potentially dangerous (ANY command can be run as root), so use with care!

The man page is sudoers(5).

dive · 05-11-2006, 02:17 PM

I put in visudo:

dave ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

cs-cam · 05-11-2006, 08:23 PM

It'll work but as has been said above, not the brightest idea on earth.

orange400 · 05-11-2006, 08:42 PM

It's just a personal laptop that only I use ... would there still be a reason that it's a bad idea?

bert07 · 03-18-2012, 10:08 AM

In de sudoers of Lucid, I added

bert ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

This works well on Lucid.

But it does not work on Debian 6.04, openSUSE 11.4, Mageia 1, Linux Mint 11 & Linux Mint 12.

What need I do to make it work?

Any one?

Bert.