Sudo problem, it don't ask for password??!
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Sudo problem, it don't ask for password??!
started by: Nick-xx
Posted by Nick-xx on Sep. 09 2006,06:26
i have DSL in a USB flash and i'm using the default booting and automounting without instaling it to the pen drive. Also i have changed the passwd for dsl and root and saved in the backup now when i use "sudo su" or any comand with sudo it doesn't ask me for a password, then i looked in the sudoers file and i see that it has a NOPASSWD tag. Then i think the problem is with this tag, but after putting "dsl ALL = ALL " like in sudoers manual say, then again when i use "sudo su" it doesn't ask me for any password, i want it to prompt me for a password. 
PS: i already backup up the password file and i know that the users have password set.
Any help will be apreciated and sorry for the bad english again
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 09 2006,15:12
Did you also back up /etc/sudoers?
Posted by Nick-xx on Sep. 09 2006,18:18
Yes i also backup the sudoers file but it don't ask me for passwd
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 09 2006,19:40
I've never quite understood the syntax of sudoers, but you might try this instead:dsl ALL=(ALL) ALL
and maybe remove the knoppix line, since it doesn't really apply to anything anymore.
Posted by Nick-xx on Sep. 09 2006,19:45
i have already tried this again no diference it doesn't ask me for any password . Its so strange.
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 09 2006,20:19
Don't know if this helps, but...| Quote |
| The sudoers file should always be edited by the visudo command which locks the file and does grammatical checking. It is imperative that sudoers be free of syntax errors since sudo will not run with a syntactically incorrect sudoers file. |
Have you tried this:
dsl ALL=PASSWD: ALL
%staff ALL=PASSWD: ALL
Maybe the staff group is being allowed to run sudo without authentication
Posted by brianw on Sep. 10 2006,02:32
Here is a sudoer man page with plenty of examples:< http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/sudoers.5.html >