User in admin group still being prompted for password to sudo
You will always be prompted for a password unless you have the NOPASSWD
option set in the sudoers
file for any given entry (ignoring the grace period the password is remembered and hence not prompted, default 15 minutes).
For example, to make all members of the sudo
group to have passwordless sudo
implementation:
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
This indicates any member of the sudo
group can run any command starting with sudo
without prompting for password.
Similarly for user foobar
to run the command reboot
:
foobar ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot
Note that, it is not a good idea to have passwordless sudo
access for all commands unless you have a very good reason, you should consider restricting the commands to a necessary minimum.
The sudo
rules can also be defined in files under the /etc/sudoers.d/
directory, default /etc/sudoers
file contains:
includedir /etc/sudoers.d
at the end, this makes any file that does not contain .
or ends in ~
to be read for sudo
rules. Presumably the definitions for user ubuntu
defined in any of the files under the /etc/sudoes.d/
directory.