somewhat OT: sudo question

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 04:31:49 UTC 2010



On 09/09/2010 09:25 PM, JD wrote:
>
>
> On 09/09/2010 09:09 PM, Gregory Hosler wrote:
>> Granting administrator privileges is not done gratuitously. Having 2 
>> entries,
>> for 2 different types of requirements is totally sane.
>>
>> Having said that, the sudoers manpage gives an example with one line 
>> combining both.
>
> Would this do it?
>
> maitra    ALL=(ALL)      NOPASSWD: 
> /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate,/usr/sbin/pm-suspend , PASSWD: ALL
That generated a syntax error.
I modified it to
maitra    ALL=(ALL)      
NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/pm-hibernate,/usr/sbin/pm-suspend , PASSWD:ALL

i.e., removed the space after the colon
and that took care of it.

Rajan, try it and let us know.



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