somewhat OT: sudo question

[JD]

On 09/09/2010 12:12 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:59:18 -0500 JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>
>> On 09/09/2010 11:41 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to set up sudo permissions for myself (let us say) such
>>> that I do not need password for /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate
>>> or /usr/sbin/pm-suspend but need it for everything else. Anyone know
>>> off-hand how this can be done by adding lines in the /etc/sudoers file?
>>>
>>> Many thanks and best wishes,
>>> Ranjan
>> Append a line like the following to /etc/sudoers
>>
>> ranjan      ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
> Sorry, maybe I was not clear. I wanted to have the ability to use sudo
> without password for the above two commands, but use sudo with password
> (required) for everything else.
>
> Will it be enough to type the two commands with a comma separator after
> the NOPASSWD: (and instead of the ALL)? I guess I could try this, but
> wanted to be sure.
>
> Ranjan

Once you do as I described, you will not need password
for any sudo command.