tape:x:26:

sudo:x:27:bmike1

audio:x:29:pulse

I have the lines:

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command

#sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

in /etc/sudoers and as a result sudo no longer requires a password for my user. I then figured I would test this so I commented out my user in /etc/group (sudo:x:27:#<user>) and then opened a new terminal and typed in 'sudo visudo' fully expecting it to ask for a password but no password was requested. So what's up?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:08 PM, James Dugger <james.dugger@gmail.com> wrote:

Either create a new group or use an exiting group that is not being used. and then add the group to the sido script. so for a new group:

1. Add a new group to /etc/group with the following command:

groupadd groupname (where groupname is a single word)

2. Open the /etc/group file and add your username to your new group as discussed before.

3. Open the sudo script file with visudo and add the groupname following stanza to the file:

%groupname ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

This is basically the same thing. If you are the only user or admin on your system than this is overkill and you could just use the %sudo group stanza as discussed before. However if you are planning or have serveral administrators that will have different permissions than it would be best to re-think not using passwords.