It may be useful to run the sudo command without password, maybe you’re lazy, maybe your account has no password, or ssh password authentication are not permitted.
Passwordless login
⚠ Here may be dragons!
⚠ While playing with the sudoers system, a small error MAY lock you outside of your system. This can prevent remote AND local logins. Always keep a tty connected logged in as root. ⚠
- Create the file
/etc/sudoers.d/50-sudonopass-group-passwordless# Users in the 'sudonopass' group don't need passwords %sudonopass ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL - Create the group
sudonopass, if you know what a GID is, select a free one and, do that:sudo groupadd -g FREE_GID sudonopassor if you don’t:
sudo groupadd sudonopass - Add the user to the group
sudonopasssudo usermod -a -G sudonopass the_user
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