[SOLVED] shutdown without password

[terdon]

Sorry, forgot a change I had made to make it work. Make shutdown executable by your user. Something like:

sudo chmod 777 /sbin/shutdown

And there is no reason to restart, worked for me just after I made the changes. I also recomend you use

 sudo shutdown -h 10

or something so it doesn't shutdown on you just as you are trying it out

[_Purple_]

Hi Purple,
I put exactly the same as you suggested then I:
- restart manually the system
- login back as user
- run sudo shutdown -r now
- System still asking me for the SUDO password, strange things?

is it really a big matter to put <SPACE> or <TAB> in combination in between characters?

user<SPACE>ALL<SPACE>=<SPACE>(ALL)<SPACE>NOPASSWD:<SPACE>/sbin/shutdown

or

user<TAB>ALL<SPACE>=<SPACE>(ALL)<SPACE>NOPASSWD:<SPACE>/sbin/shutdown

Hi televisi,
As aysiu has already mentioned, please use your own username instead of user and save the sudoers file. Putting space in between is not necessary. It works fine for me and /etc/init.d is not needed. Did you place the line at the end of sudoers file? Because if you place it above, it will get overwritten. You do not need to change permission of any file either.

[terdon]

_Purple_ : It works for you without the /etc/init.d line? Really? That's weird, I had to add it or it still asked for the password. Strange...

[_Purple_]

_Purple_ : It works for you without the /etc/init.d line? Really? That's weird, I had to add it or it still asked for the password. Strange...

terdon,
Yes, it works. I have checked in both Intrepid and Jaunty.

[televisi]

Yay!!! THANKS!!!
This is the end result:
- Assumed user = televisi
- sudo visudo

# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

Defaults        env_reset

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
#%televisi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/rsync, /sbin/shutdown

# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move
# it further down)
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
televisi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/rsync, /sbin/shutdown

Originally I put the televisi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/rsync, /sbin/shutdown line above %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

Apparently this shouldn't be done (as per _Purple_ suggestion).

As this is working for me now, I'll continue my work to use rsync backup using sudo to preserve the file permission as per http://notepad.bobkmertz.com/2008/04...ssion-via.html

THANKS!!!