Here are the contents of my /etc/sudoers
file
$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
# directly modifying this file.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
Defaults mail_badpass
Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin"
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
pkaramol ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
And here is what's inside /etc/sudoers.d
/home/pkaramol
$ sudo ls /etc/sudoers.d/
README
However, still no password-less sudo:
/home/pkaramol
$ sudo -k
/home/pkaramol
$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for pkaramol:
Why is that?
pkaramol
is a member of groupsudo
oradmin
- which requieres password to escalate privileges.