https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48105
Web browser: --- Bug ID: 48105 Summary: "sudo chown ..." asks for password which doesn't exist Product: Wikimedia Labs Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: tools Assignee: m...@uberbox.org Reporter: t...@tim-landscheidt.de Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: --- Tools accounts have a sudo rule to claim ownership of their entire directory structure: | local-wikilint@tools-login:~$ sudo -l | Matching Defaults entries for local-wikilint on this host: | env_reset | User local-wikilint may run the following commands on this host: | (local-wikilint) NOPASSWD: ALL | (root) NOPASSWD: chown -R local-wikilint:local-wikilint /data/project/wikilint/ | (local-wikilint) NOPASSWD: ALL | local-wikilint@tools-login:~$ However, despite "NOPASSWD", it still asks for one: | local-wikilint@tools-login:~$ sudo chown -R local-wikilint:local-wikilint /data/project/wikilint/ | [sudo] password for local-wikilint: [^C] | local-wikilint@tools-login:~$ sudo -u root chown -R local-wikilint:local-wikilint /data/project/wikilint/ | [sudo] password for local-wikilint: [^C] | local-wikilint@tools-login:~$ As tools accounts don't have passwords, that's kind of an impasse :-). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l