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Re: New installation asks for password when I 'sudo -i'

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Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> All my pis until now allow me to get root privileges by doing 'sudo
> -i' without entering my password.
> 
> One I have just installed does request my password when I do 'sudo -i'.
> 
> Can anyone suggest why this new one acts differently?
> 
> I have checked that /etc/sudoers is the same on the new system as on
> all others.  I have also checked that my user is in all the same
> groups in /etc/group.
> 
> All systems are running the latest Raspbian with kernel 6.12.75.
> 
Ah, I finally found the difference, all systems except the new pi have
a file /etc/sudoers.d/010_pi-nopasswd which provides the no password
"sudo -i".

The remaining question is why the latest system didn't get this file
installed.  Has rpi-imager been changed so that it no longer installs
it?

-- 
Chris Green
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  Re: New installation asks for password when I 'sudo -i' Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2026-05-08 21:39 +0100
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      Re: New installation asks for password when I 'sudo -i' Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2026-05-09 09:24 +0100
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