David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
> On Mon 29 Nov 2021 at 17:47:24 (-0500), Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> sudo doesn't ask me for my password and I didn't even touch /etc/sudoers
>> to do it. A file placed in /etc/sudoers.d with permissions of 0440 having
>> any name you choose and contents like:
>> user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
>> in it with user being the account name will do it.
>
> As /etc/sudoers already contains the line:
>
> %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>
> one should be able to achieve the same effect by
> adding the user to the sudo group.
Near as I can tell from my experience, that doesn't work around the
password requirement.
Make sure you log out and log back in after you do 'adduser joe sudo' (or whatever your username is). Group permissions are generally only effective as they were at the time of that session's login.