passwordless sudo
Rich Boyce
rich at ebi.ac.uk
Wed Nov 30 10:44:19 UTC 2011
On 30/11/11 10:38, Hiisi wrote:
> Hi, list!
> I'm trying to set up passwordless sudo for myself. It's a shiny brand
> new fresh-installed F16. During first boot I had been asked to create
> a new user and put him to administrative group. I answered yes and
> hence my user is able to run commands using sudo. However in
> /etc/sudoers there's not a mention of my user. I've added the
> following string to it:
> hiisi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
> Apparently it has no effect - I have to enter password each time sudo
> is invoked for the first time.
Try taking out the space after NOPASSWD:
HTH,
Rich
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