On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Uwe Kiewel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am 09.03.2010 22:22, schrieb Tom H: >>>>>> Do you have any sudo call from your /etc or /etc/skel bashrc or >>>>>> profile...? >>>>> Yes, I do have in /etc/bashrc: >>>>> sudo -l >>>> Unless you already understood: >>>> su - "make the shell a login shell" >>>> so sudo -l in bashrc is executed, which asks for the user's >>>> password >>> Understood, who is asking - not understood why "sudo -l" is asking >>> for >>> the password and why just hitting the enter key works >> >> sudo -l >> lists the commands that you are allowed to run with sudo > > That is clear to me, but why does this command request the password? what's the output of sudo grep root /etc/sudoers Tony Schreiner