Re: passwordless sudo

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 13:38 +0300, 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 On initial installs when this is setup, your userID is not added to the sudoers file itself. The *wheel* group is what is allowed/setup in sudoers, and your userid is added to the *wheel* group in the /etc/group file, such as below.. wheel:x:10:your-username-here If you wanted to do passwordless, then comment out the line below.. ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL And uncomment the line below here.. ## Same thing without a password # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL In other words, it doesn't add the username/ID itself to the sudoers file, it goes through the *wheel* group and you add/drop users from there on need to use basis.