On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:15:44PM +0300, Taneli Vähäkangas wrote: > Hello all, > > I have had sudo held at version 1.6.6-2 for a longish time, since > the newer versions I've tried don't seem to honour the NOPASSWD > tag. I just un-held it and the current sudo 1.6.8p12-1 in testing > still misbehaves. Now I'm at a loss what to do. > > Here's my sudoers file: > # cat /etc/sudoers | grep -v ^# > root ALL = (ALL) ALL > taneli ALL = (maria) NOPASSWD: /usr/games/glines > taneli ALL = ALL > > As you can see, I want this to succeed: > taneli% sudo -u maria /usr/games/glines > So that it does not ask for a password. What should I do? >
>From 'man sudoers': When multiple entries match for a user, they are applied in order. Where there are conflicting values, the last match is used (which is not necessarily the most specific match). So switching the two lines around in /etc/sudoers should sort it: root ALL = (ALL) ALL taneli ALL = ALL taneli ALL = (maria) NOPASSWD: /usr/games/glines Hope that helps, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
