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

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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. 

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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!

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