Sudoers list?

[Matthew Kuiken]

Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:14:05PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>   
>> Chris Bannister wrote:
>>     
>>>> I don't want to force people to run this script as root. Running stuff 
>>>> as root is a really bad habit. I want this script to be as non-root 
>>>> friendly as possible. There is only one step that *might* warrant root 
>>>> access and that's if the destination directory belongs to root.
>>>>         
>>> Just run gksudo and test for whatever error code it gives if the user 
>>> isn't in the sudoers file / gives the wrong password.
>>>       
>> The problem with that is that is that the user still gets a password 
>> prompt even if they are not sudoers.
>>     
>
> But not if doing only "sudo -l" (or -v). I just tried it.
> Then the return value can be tested, as already suggested, can't it?:
>
> erik at dvalin:~$ sudo -v
> erik at dvalin:~$ echo $?
> 0
>   
Hmm, I tried the same thing, and got:

mtkuiken at mtk-laptop:~$ sudo -v
Password:

So it prompted me for a password. Maybe you were within the sudo timeout 
period from a previous command?

-Matt