How do I stop Ubuntu asking for password every time?

How do I stop Ubuntu asking for password every time?

To disable the password requirement, click on Application > Accessories > Terminal. Next, enter this command line sudo visudo and press enter. Now, enter your password and press Enter. Then, search for %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL and replace the line by %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL.

What password does sudo ask for?

4 Answers

• In its most common configuration, sudo asks for the password of the user running sudo (as you say, the user corresponding to the process’ real user id).
• sudo does indeed ask for the password after it’s started running; it can’t do otherwise (i.e. it can’t do anything before it starts running).

How do I stop sudo every time?

You don’t. Two things you can do are: 1) Run sudo -s to stay root when you plan on entering multiple commands and don’t want to keep prefixing them with sudo. 2) You can configure your sudoers file to allow you to run sudo without having to enter your password.

Why does Sudo prompt me to use more without password?

Let’s me use more without a password, just prompting for anything else. I guess this is due to the order which which things are checked in sudo (bottom-to-top). How did you edit the sudoers file? To verify a valid sudoers file ALWAYS use the visudo command and NEVER edit the sudoers file directly.

Why is my Password not working in sudoers?

If myuser is in the sudo group, then this order of the lines won’t provide passwordless access (as noted by Florian Diesch), because the 3rd line overrides the 1st one. Under myuser account use sudo -l to check what permissions myuser has. If multiple entries match for a user the last one is used.

Why does Sudo keep asking for password on Mavericks?

The following sudoers configuration used to work well in MacOS 10.8.5, several days ago I upgraded to Mavericks, NOPASSWD flag does not seem to work anymore: Mavericks’ sudo still asks for entering password. Is there any resolution/workaround?

How can I run LS with sudo privileges?

Write the prompt to the standard error and read the password from the standard input instead of using the terminal device. The password must be followed by a newline character. So, to run ls with sudo privileges, you would do