visudo

[Jon Ernster]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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