On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:49 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 13:38 +0300, Hiisi wrote: > > Hi, list! > > I'm trying to set up passwordless sudo for myself. It's a shiny brand > > new fresh-installed F16. During first boot I had been asked to create > > a new user and put him to administrative group. I answered yes and > > hence my user is able to run commands using sudo. However in > > /etc/sudoers there's not a mention of my user. I've added the > > following string to it: > > hiisi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > On initial installs when this is setup, your userID is not added to the > sudoers file itself. The *wheel* group is what is allowed/setup in > sudoers, and your userid is added to the *wheel* group in the /etc/group > file, such as below.. > > wheel:x:10:your-username-here > > If you wanted to do passwordless, then comment out the line below.. > > ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands > %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL > > And uncomment the line below here.. > > ## Same thing without a password > # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > In other words, it doesn't add the username/ID itself to the sudoers > file, it goes through the *wheel* group and you add/drop users from > there on need to use basis. Thhat is not copletely true. Using visudo and adding the line: hilsi ALL=(root) NOPASSWD ALL should work. -- ======================================================================= I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. -- Fred Allen [Also attributed to S. Clay Wilson. Ed.] ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
