I'm in Ubuntu 18.04LTS and I want to change the sudoers file to execute
sudo shutdown -h now
without the need of password (for my_username
). The steps I take were:
With my user my_username
open terminal:
sudo visudo
The line I added:
my_username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown
Where there is only one tab in the first part (between user and ALL) and the rest are spaces.
The user is the one it appears after id
in terminal.
After that, just in case I restart the system, and type sudo shutdown -h now
but it keeps asking for password.
What I'm doing wrong?
-----EDIT------
Ok, I didn't know that the order in which you add the lines were important, so as asked I added my full file (it's a very simple sudoers config).
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
Defaults mail_badpass
Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin"
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# 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:
my_username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
This way it works perfectly for me. The problem was that I added the line after root line.
Asked by Aurelie Navir
(137 rep)
May 25, 2020, 11:07 AM
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