On Wed, June 10, 2015 6:08 pm, Chris Olson wrote: > My experience with RHEL and CentOS is quite limited, andwould classify me > as novice. I have been running CentOS 6for a little over a year and > recently brought up a CentOS 7system as a virtual machine under Windows 7. > One of the first things I usually do after installation isedit the > /etc/sudoers file using visudo to give a specificuser or specific users > privileges as indicated in the fileexcerpt below. The visudo editor issued > no error messageswhen creating the line for sarah. > ##   user   MACHINE=COMMANDS > ## > ## The COMMANDS section may have other options added to it. > ## > ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere > root ALL=(ALL) ALL > sarah ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Wow, regular user getting root without password! This looks scary! Did we have a whole chapter about it in system administration books? Valeri > On our CentOS 6 systems, the NOPASSWD option works as itis intended to > work. No password prompt is presented for > commands such as "sudo cat /etc/sudoers". On CentOS 7,the NOPASSWD > option does not seem to work, and a promptfor sarah's password is always > issued. > > Can someone help solve this CentOS 7 mystery? > Thank you and best regards. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++