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Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

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On 13/05/2018 18:48, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The underlying problem is not understanding what I read concerning sudo 
> &/or /etc/sudoers (*INCLUDING* man pages).
> 
> Only *ONE* individual has physical access to my _personal_ machine.
> Therefore, any distinction between 'richard' and 'root' is inherently 
> artificial.
> 
> The result I wish to achieve is to click on the icon for either GParted 
> or Synaptic *WITHOUT* being asked for a password (either root's or user's).
> 
> I've found vague hints that adding a line to my local /etc/sudoers file
> such as
>    richard     ALL = /usr/sbin/gparted , /usr/sbin/synaptic
> would accomplish my goal.
> Is that correct?
> 
> Also my reading suggested that adding myself to sudoers group would be 
> required.
> 
> This has an undesired side effect. I'm asked for my user password 
> instead of my root password. I currently have four different installs of 
> Debian each having an intentionally identical sets of UID, GID, and 
> passwords. No matter which install is active, if asked for an admin
> password I want it to be the 'root password'
> 
> N.B.
> My previous statement
>> The result I wish to achive is to click on the icon for either
>> GParted or Synaptic *WITHOUT* being asked for a password > (either 
>> root's or user's).
> would apply only to the install on this partition.
> 
> 
> 

Hello, to grant yourself "sudo" usage you can add your user to "sudo" 
group, or put this in your /etc/sudoers file:

$user ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

where you replace "$user" with your username.

To be granted password-less execution of a command you can use:

$user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /full/path/to/executable argument --option

The argument or options are of course optional, but for "NOPASSWD:" to 
work the command in /etc/sudoers must be the same as the one invoked by 
the user.

To be asked for root password all the time, use at the beginning of 
/etc/sudoers the line:

Defaults rootpw


You may still experience a different behavior for applications using the 
policykit framework.

It goes without saying that a specially crafted sudoers file can make 
your system much less secure, but you are the only judge of that.

Hope it helps.

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Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-13 15:40 +0200
  Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password "tv.debian@googlemail.com" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> - 2018-05-13 16:20 +0200
    Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-13 21:50 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-05-14 10:00 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-14 10:50 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-14 15:10 +0200
          Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-15 02:50 +0200
            Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-15 13:30 +0200
              Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-15 14:50 +0200
                Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-15 16:10 +0200
              Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-15 19:00 +0200
                Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 20:30 +0200
                Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-05-16 11:30 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password "John Crawley (johnraff)" <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-05-15 07:50 +0200
          Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-15 15:30 +0200
            Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-05-16 07:40 +0200
              Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-16 09:50 +0200
  Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-13 16:20 +0200
    Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-13 21:50 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-14 03:30 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-05-14 08:00 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-14 09:00 +0200
  Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-13 16:30 +0200
    Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-13 22:00 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-13 22:20 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-14 09:20 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-14 15:40 +0200
  Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-14 01:10 +0200

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