however, in my notes I and add a line like this:

      %sudo ALL=(ALL)  NOPASSWD:  ALL

and then add my user to the sudo group.
What does the percent sign mean? does it indicate the next string of
characters is the name of a group?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> how embarrasing! I already wrote myself notes on how to do this..... sorry
> to waste the brain power with my taxing question. lol
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why is the format so different? Meaning the examples I have to look at
>> are 'ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL' but the way the computer accepts it is without
>> the parentheses and withot the cast three characters.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Jon Ernster <jon.ernster@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ALL just gives you the ability to run sudo on all binaries.  If you
>>> don't want to give your password every time you use sudo then you need to
>>> use the NOPASSWD option.
>>>
>>> ie:  exampleuser    ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just tried saving it as sudoers rather than as the .tmp file but
>>>> still it requires a password. Please tell me what I am doing wrong?
>>>> Here is the file <user is ***>
>>>>
>>>> # Cmnd alias specification
>>>>
>>>> # User privilege specification
>>>> root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>>> ***  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>>>
>>>> # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
>>>> admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
>>>> ***  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>>>
>>>> # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
>>>> sudo    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>>> ***  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:23 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> sudoers.tmp is the lock file visudo uses to make sure there aren't
>>>>> multiple edits going on at the same time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to add my user to 'sudoers'. After I do I press cntrl-X
>>>>>> and it says the file it is going to save is 'sudoers.tmp' . So I save it
>>>>>> like that and my user still requires a password. should I not save it as
>>>>>> the .tmp file but rather as 'sudoers'. I don't remember it being like that
>>>>>> last time I did this!
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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