[Bug 996753] Re: entry in sudoers to execute a script without password prompt as root has no effect since 12.04

[Pascal Levasseur]

Same problem, unable to execute a cron script who throttle the speed of
the cpu's.

This script was working perfectly on Ubuntu 11.10. with this entry in /etc/sudoers :
 
pascal vortex = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cpufreq-set

Now it ask for a password.

For test purpose I have done a fresh install of a Debian 6 and it works
without asking for the password with the same line in /etc/sudoers.

What happens in Ubuntu 12.04 ?

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Title:
  entry in sudoers to execute a script without password prompt as root
  has no effect since 12.04

Status in “sudo” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Since many ubuntu releases I execute a script in /usr/local/bin with
  sudo without password prompt in this way:

  /etc/sudoers:
  ...

  %admin ALL = (ALL) ALL
  %admin ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/script

  ...

  Since Kubuntu 12.04 this entry has no effect any more. It is not
  possible to execute /usr/local/bin/script as root without password
  prompt.

  I have try this entrys too for username at maschine

  %username ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/script

  username ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/script

  %username maschine = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/script

  username maschine = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/script

  username ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/script

  So I think thers is a bug, because nothing works.

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