Cannot run sudo without password

General system Newbie
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Hey everyone,

fresh install of EOS with KDE. Single user system, ticked the box on install to use my pwd for administrative stuff.

I want to be able to do system updates (yay in terminal) without typing my password.

I have tried

sudo visudo

and then multiple things:

added

myusername ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/yay, /usr/bin/yay -Syu

, or tried uncommenting
the wheel group NOPASSWD line

even tried putting a file in /etc/sudoers.d/ with my username and

myusername ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: ALL

but still everytime I type yay into Konsole in a fresh session it asks for my password.

What am i missing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

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I quote this from another forum, explains it well:

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.

myusername ALL=(ALL) ALL
myusername ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /path/to/my/program

Note the use of (root), to allow the program to be run as root but not as other users. (Don’t give more permissions than the minimum required unless you’ve thought out the implications.)

I think you can drop the part with the command parameters, because you already gave the permission to the usage of yay as a whole.

3

Does not work unfortunately…

Added

myusername ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
myusername ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/yay

at the end of the sudoers file (via sudo visudo)
but no success, still asks for my password

4

Only add the second line at the end, the first is only for explanation.

5

Still asks for the password, even then :frowning:

6

Can you try this at the very end of the file, temporary and remove it after testing:

%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/yay

It will give the privileges to the wheel group

Edit:
Just tried the following on my own system, worked well for me:

svartiz ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/yay

Guess there’s something else on your system that conflicts.

7

Still not working, sorry!

8

Thats weird.
I don’t understand the conflict

Nothing I change in visudo seems to impact the Konsole

9

how do you quit visudo?

Press ESC and then
you should use “:wq” to quit it.

I know it isn’t recommended but have you tried editing the sudoers file with

sudo nano /etc/sudoers

10

Sudo uses dropin files now… edited the 10-installer file in /etc/sudoers.d/ and now it’s working… sorry for the inconvenience!

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I do it like this

Create /etc/sudoers.d/admin_cmds

which contains this structure

Cmnd_Alias ADMIN_CMDS = /usr/bin/yay, /usr/bin/btrfs
%wheel ALL = NOPASSWD: ADMIN_CMDS

Note that my user is in group wheel

I should also mention that /etc/sudoers must have something like this at the end

## Read drop-in files from /etc/sudoers.d
@includedir /etc/sudoers.d
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Another important point.

Run

sudo -l

to see what you are allowed to do when running sudo.

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