[sudo-users] Sudo not asking users' password

[Fabien Bagard]

On 11/18/2010 12:40 AM, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> In message<4CE40F3B.4080802 at parrot.com>
> 	so spake Fabien Bagard (fabien.bagard):
>
>    
>> I have some trouble with sudo :
>>
>> On some servers, sudo grant root privileges to members of group 'sudo'
>> without asking them their password.
>> The problem is I do not understand why, and how to get the password asked.
>>
>> It is not a timeout problem, because even after a long while, or even
>> without the /var/rum/sudo/ dir, the problem persists.
>>      
> It sounds like sudo on those servers was compiled with
> exempt_group set to "sudo".  Try running the this on
> one of the affected servers:
>
> $ sudo sudo -V | grep exempt
>
> If you see something like:
>
> Users in this group are exempt from password and PATH requirements: sudo
>
> then that sudo binary has been compiled such that users in
> the sudo group need not enter a password.
>
> You can disable that by adding the following line to sudoers file.
>
>      Defaults !exempt_group
>
>   - todd
>    

Thank you Todd for your quick response.

It was exactly this problem.

-- 
Fabien Bagard