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Re: Stopping the system asking for root password

GeordieJedi — Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:20 am

Author: GeordieJedi

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:20 am

Ah-Ha, I see.

So is there any way to stop the system for asking for a root PW in
these instances too ?

Re: Stopping the system asking for root password

Rhakios — Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:36 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:36 pm

GeordieJedi wrote:

Right then.

I've done as you suggested in your previous posts
(Added those extra lines to the sudoers file)

So far, I can get a root prompt in the terminal without being asked for a PW
However if I try Gparted or try to download any software, from the
Ubuntu software centre I then get asked for my PW.

Strange......

Not necessarily, if you're launching from a menu or icon, a lot of them include gksu or pkexec, or something similar, as part of the command and this will bring up the authorisation dialog.

Re: Stopping the system asking for root password

GeordieJedi — Wed Feb 13, 2013 3:14 pm

Author: GeordieJedi

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 3:14 pm

Right then.

I've done as you suggested in your previous posts
(Added those extra lines to the sudoers file)

So far, I can get a root prompt in the terminal without being asked for a PW
However if I try Gparted or try to download any software, from the
Ubuntu software centre I then get asked for my PW.

Strange......

Re: Stopping the system asking for root password

MartyBartfast — Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:13 pm

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:13 pm

So in your original post you added sudo rights to members of the admin group, however you are not in the admin group, however you are in the adm and sudo groups, so I would suggest that you use visudo to change

Code:

%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Code:

%adm ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

or add this

Code:

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

(just edited this having read Xenopeek's reply).

Re: Stopping the system asking for root password

GeordieJedi — Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:57 pm

Author: GeordieJedi

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:57 pm

Hi there.

Right here are the results of the questions that you asked -

Command =

Code:

Answer =

Code:

uid=1000(myname)
gid=1000(myname)
groups=1000(myname)
4(adm), 24(cdrom), 27(sudo), 30(dip), 46(plugdev),
109(lpadmin),124(sambashare)

Command =

Code:

groups

Answer =

Code:

(myname) adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare

Thanks for the help so-far Martyartfast and Xenopeek

Re: Stopping the system asking for root password

xenopeek — Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:31 pm

Author: xenopeek

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:31 pm

You could take a hint from the sudoers file in the live session. I don't have Ubuntu 12.04, but the Linux Mint 13 based on that. Probably very similar. Here are the relevant bits:

Code:

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

# See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:

#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
mint ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

So what you want is to see the %sudo line be as above, make sure you are a member of sudo group (type "groups" in terminal to confirm) and add that last line with sudo visudo, replacing mint with your username.

Unless there is some further hidden configuration, that should work, right?

Good luck with getting RSI under control; and don't let it get worse...

Re: Stopping the system asking for root password

MartyBartfast — Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:58 pm

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:58 pm

Are you in the admin group?

Code:

$ id

will show which groups you're in

Code:

$ sudo usermod -aG admin GeordiJedi

should add you to it if not.

Stopping the system asking for root password

GeordieJedi — Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:06 pm

Author: GeordieJedi

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:06 pm

Hi all.

OK, I'd like to stop my system from asking for the root password whenever I try
to run apps or elevate privaliges.
(I realise that this is normal and how things "should" be done,
however I've got really bad RSI and every little bit helps).

I also understand the security implications this involves too.

I've asked something similar previously =
here

And was asked to edit the sudoers file using visudo and alter
the line in question to =

Code:

%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

However even though I've done this
(And I'm pretty sure it was done properly - I went in and checked the
file running Gedit as root. However I only viewed the file I didn't edit it using Gedit).

At the moment I still get the request come up if I do any of the following -
I run Gparted.
I run a terminal session (and then ask for a root session).
I run GUFW.
Run Ubuntu software centre.

Is there anything I've done incorrectly, or anything else that I need to do ?

Useful information =

OS = Ubuntu 12.04
DE = KDE

TIA for any help or advice.