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papasfragiskos

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Registered: 2020-11-20

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] Problem with the sudoers file.

Hello. I'm trying to allow my user to run "sudo mount" and "sudo umount" without needing a sudo password. So I add this line in my sudoers file (yes my user is in the wheel group)

%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/mount, /usr/bin/umount

But when i try to run any command (for example sudo pacman -Syu), sudo complains that my user is not in the sudoers file. So I replace the above line with

myusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/mount, /usr/bin/umount

But, again, when i try to run any other command (like sudo pacman -Syu) it complains that my user doesn't have permision to use that command. Why is that? What am I doing wrong? I just want to use mount and umount without a password. All of the other commands i want them to require a password.

Last edited by papasfragiskos (2021-08-20 09:26:43)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,310

Re: [SOLVED] Problem with the sudoers file.

Don't remove the third ALL:

%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL, NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/mount, /usr/bin/umount

Last edited by V1del (2021-08-20 09:05:46)

papasfragiskos

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Registered: 2020-11-20

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Problem with the sudoers file.

Don't remove the third ALL:

%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL, NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/mount, /usr/bin/umount

Thank you very much