Is it me or is it sudo?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Mar 28 21:03:09 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 09:18 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: 
> I'm kinda confused by the sudo problem I'm having.  I've edited the main 
> file with visudo to include:
> 
> ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
> root    ALL=(ALL)       ALL
> markh   ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL

Instead your last line above I have:
akonstam All=(root) NOPASSWD: ALL

and I can issue root commands without a password needed to be entered. 
> 
> (obviously only the last line was my addition)
> 
> But for some reason, it makes no difference at all. I'm still required 
> to input my password.  What gives?  I've not had this problem before so 
> I don't know where to start.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark Haney
> Software Developer/Consultant
> AB Emblem
> markh at abemblem.com
> Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.0-4.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux


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