On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:32:04 +1100, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
wrote:
Package: cloud.debian.org
Severity: minor
Hello everybody,
while updating from Squeeze to Wheezy an image created by
ec2debian-build-ami,
I was interrupted by dpkg to manage the update of /etc/sudoers as it was
locally modified by ec2debian-build-ami to add the following line:
admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
At first I thought that it could be simplified by simply adding the
admin user
to the sudoer group, however this does not work as the admin user does
not have
a password, and by default, sudo will ask for one to the members of the
sudo
group:
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
However, I note that in Ubuntu, a password is not asked, despite that the
configuration is very similar (using the group admin instead of sudo).
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
Does anybody know how to allow passwordless access to the members of the
sudo
group without modifying /etc/sudoers ? This would simplify the
interactive
upgrades of our virtual machines.
Afaik, this is what /etc/sudoers is for and should be edited by visudo, at
least for interactive (SUDOERS(5)).
For automation of this configuration I like using Chef and the sudo
cookbook, http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/sudo. I am not sure why
you are looking for another way without editing /etc/sudoers.
Have a nice Sunday,
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