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#LINUX ALLOW USER TO SUDO WITHOUT PASSWORD HOW TO#

See the below screenshot before and after enabling the password-less sudo privileges for an account. The command syntax will be like: sudo your_command_here Its a very dirty trick wish leaves your system open for other dangers but I am guessing you know what you are doing and want this.

You can find the absolute path to a program by using which on a terminal.

Update entry for your user account with NOPASSWD: option as showing below:Ĭhange username with your user account and save file.Īll done, to test run any superuser command with sudo. on your program you can then use sudo shutdown -r now without having to type the sudo password.

sudo passwd test sudo password for : Changing password for user test.

If you simply set the password for the user, you should be allowed to login.

Edit sudoers file using visudo command or use below command. Although this is possible and you can have an account without a password, it is not advised.

After completing this tutorial, you can run super user commands (allowed) without entering a password.

#LINUX ALLOW USER TO SUDO WITHOUT PASSWORD HOW TO#

In this tutorial, you will understand how to configure passwordless sudo account on a Linux machine. Then you can assign sudo privileges to that account. Note: Be sure to use sudo visudo to edit anything sudo related or you could corrupt your sudo privileges. Then you can use the following to login: sudo su - app-admin. If you are on a server, you should be extra careful specially if you have SSH enabled. None other than the root user can reboot a Linux system but you want to provide the privilege to your team member, so they can reboot the instance on the absence of you. In your sudoers file, you can put the following entry: my-users ALLNOPASSWD: /bin/su - app-admin. In Linux, you can change sudo configuration to run some or all command with sudo but without entering password. For example, a command to reboot the server. Some of the commands are accessible by the root user only. Sudo provides special privileges to any user or group.