[ALUG] Re: sudo help please

Eur Ing Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Sun Feb 25 19:12:30 GMT 2007


On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:52:00PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> I virtually never use sudo as I simply su to root and do what's needed.
> 
> However I want to do a mount in a shell script that runs as me rather
> than root and the safest way to do it would seem to be to all 'me' to

oops, that's "... allow me ...".

> sudo a mount command.  However I can't get it to work with no
> password, what I have in the sudoers file is:-
> 
>     chris   home = NOPASSWD: /sbin/mount
>     chris   home = NOPASSWD: /sbin/umount
> 
> ... but it's still prompting me for a password when I do 'sudo mount
> //bla/bla bla'.  So, what am I doing wrong?
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green
> 
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