On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:20:19 -0500 Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/2015 09:36 AM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > El 14/11/15 a las 02:11, Ken Heard escribió: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> In my Wheezy box I want to be able to run any root command as my > >> user without having to enter a password to do so. I assume that > >> there are two ways to do so: either make my user a member of the > >> sudo group, or add a line to sudoers giving such privileges to my > >> user. Neither worked. > > > > You have to add the "NOPASSWD" option. Check the "sudoers" man > > page. > > Add your user to the sudo group like this in /etc/group : > sudo:x:27:ric > ...using your own user name. Then it will work, if you added your > user to /ect/sudoers like: > # User privilege specification > root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > ric ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > > ...works for me(tm) :)Ric > > > The OP did explicitly say he wanted to use the NOPASSWD option, and his sudoers file shows it in use, currently commented. Your example will still ask for a password, and anyway it's either/or: you can either add yourself to the sudo group or add your name to sudoers, you don't need both. The sudo group is just a quick and simple way of giving the same set of [presumably low-level] privileges to a number of people, and the sudo sudoers entry really shouldn't be NOPASSWD, as by default it gives full root privileges. I don't use NOPASSWD myself, so I can't give a definitive answer (as in 'this works for me') to the question, but presumably there's a semantic issue somewhere. Visudo can only pick up syntax errors, it can't tell what you meant to achieve. -- Joe
