SUDO REQUIRES PASSWORD

[frederick hannah]

Why does sudo prompt me for a password on some commands and not another? The userid is ops. The server runs 11.i.

[Patrick Wallek]

To really answer that we would have to see the sudoers file.

sudo can be configured to behave in just this fashion. There are options to require passwords sometimes and to not require passwords at other times.

It sounds like that is how this was set up.

If you did not set up sudo on this machine, talk to the person that did.

[Jeff_Traigle]

Which commands prompt for a password? What's the exact command line used when it prompts for the password?

[Jeff_Traigle]

And I notice your User_Alias and Cmnd_Alias are both OPS. Might work this way based on context, but I would personally rather keep the alias names unique throughout the file so would call them OPS_USERS and OPS_CMDS, respectively. Reduces human interpretation confusion if nothing else.

[Manuel Contreras]

your password prompts, are you prompted every time you run the same sudo cmd or is it random?
there is a time-limit/delay the sudo remembers and will not prompt you until that time-limit has expired.
this got me a while back when I was explaining sudo to someone, why it would prompt you in the beginning and not subsequent sudo cmds....unless there was a delay when cmd. was entered.