[sudo-users] sudo and passwd problem

[alexandre oliveira]

Jimmy, if you dont want sudo asks password, use:

HELPDESK ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:HEL_CMD

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Alexandre
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>From: "Covington, Jimmy D. (NGIT)" <Jimmy.Covington at va.gov>
>To: <sudo-users at sudo.ws>
>Subject: [sudo-users] sudo and passwd problem
>Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:27:40 -0600
>
>I have setup a sudoers as such:
>
>User_Alias HELPDESK=joe
>Cmnd_Alias HEL_CMD=/usr/bin/passwd [A-z]*, !/usr/bin/passwd root,
>!/usr/bin/passwd -* root
>HELPDESK ALL=(ALL) HEL_CMD
>
>Yet when I try to change another users' passwd as joe, it asks me for
>that user's passwd!
>
>joe at server $ sudo passwd tom
>Enter tom's password:
>
>This is an LDAP enabled system...
>
>Jim Covington
>Senior UNIX Engineer
>
>Sapphire Technologies, Inc.
>Austin Automation Center
>Austin, Texas 78772
>(512) 326-6635
>
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