How do I give a user sudo access to AIX?

How do I give a user sudo access to AIX?

Procedure

1. Open the sudoers file. Issue the following command: bash-2.05b$ visudo.
2. If the line Defaults requiretty exists in the file, comment it out. #Defaults requiretty.
3. Insert the following lines to allow sudo access.
4. Validate the format of the /etc/sudoers file.

How do I grant sudo to another user?

To use sudo to run a command as another user, we need to use the -u (user) option. Here, we’re going run the whoami command as the user mary . If you use the sudo command without the -u option, you’ll run the command as root . And of course, because you’re using sudo you’ll be prompted for your password.

How can I run a sudo command without a password?

Scroll down to the end of the file and add the following line that will allow the user “linuxize” to run any command with sudo without being asked for a password: Do not forget to change “linuxize” with the username you want to grant access to.

How to grant Sudo access to a user?

Usually, to grant sudo access to a user you need to add the user to the sudo group defined in the sudoers file . On Debian, Ubuntu and their derivatives, members of the group sudo are granted with sudo privileges while on RedHat based distributions like CentOS and Fedora, the name of the sudo group is wheel.

Why does Sudo use the last entry in sudoers?

If there are multiple matching entries in /etc/sudoers, sudo uses the last one. Therefore, if you can execute any command with a password prompt, and you want to be able to execute a particular command without a password prompt, you need the exception last.

Where can I find the nopasswd directive in sudoers?

You can use the NOPASSWD directive in your /etc/sudoers file. If your user is called user and your host is called host you could add these lines to /etc/sudoers: This will allow the user user to run the desired commands on host without entering a password.