How to make sudo ask for a password?

Bertilo Wennergren bertilow at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 03:28:58 UTC 2005


Peter Garrett:

> Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I use Kubuntu Breezy. For some unknown reason I can do sudo
> > without a password. That doesn't seem very secure. How can I
> > change that? I want to be asked for a password.

> An unlikely but possible scenario is that your user has somehow been
> added to the "sudo" group. If so, sudo will never ask for a password.

> The cure would be to remove your user from that group.

Thank you so much! That was it. Now I'm all set.

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Bertilo Wennergren <http://bertilow.com>




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