08 Sep 08 Using sudo in RedHat

Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen

This post describes how to allow users in the wheel group to use the sudo command without being prompted for the root password

1. Edit /etc/sudoers
   Uncomment the line

   %WHEEL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

2. Add a user to the wheel group

   # gpasswd -a username wheel

This does also work on Fedora and other Redhat based distributions.

Tags: RedHat, rhel5, sudo

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