[sudo-users] sudo asking for password even though the nopasswd is specfied

Stephen Carville stephen at totalflood.com
Fri Jun 10 11:11:36 EDT 2005


On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, K Pavan Vijay wrote:

> hi,
>
> sudo is asking for the passwd even though i specify nopasswd for the user
> my configurations are as below..
>
> ==============================configuration
> =================================
> # sudoers file.
> #
> # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
> #
> # See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
> #
>
> # Host alias specification
>
> # User alias specification
>
> # Cmnd alias specification
> # Cmnd_Alias    SHELLS = /bin/bash, /bin/sh, /bin/csh, /bin/ksh, /bin/tcsh
> # Cmnd_Alias    SU = /bin/su, /usr/bin/su
> # Cmnd_Alias    PATHS = /bin/, /usr/bin/, /usr/local/sbin/, /usr/local/bin/
> # Cmnd_Alias    BADPATHS = /var/, /tmp/, /home/, /export/home/
> # Defaults specification
> Defaults:userid1  umask=002
>
> # User privilege specification
> # root  ALL=(ALL) ALL
> <userid2>  ALL = (userid1) NOPASSWD: ALL
> %adm2   ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> # Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
> # %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL
>
> # Same thing without a password
> # %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
>
> # Samples
> # %users  ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
> # %users  localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
> ==========================================================
>
> i am using sudo-1.6.5 .when i login as userid2 and use sudo to start a
> service which is in userid1 ownership. sudo is asking for the passwd..

Did you use the -u option?



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