[Bdi4emc-help] sudo

Sat Sep 27 00:23:00 CEST 2008

Hi David

On Friday 26 September 2008, David Szakovits wrote:
> i have been running the emc-1.01 version.   when i execute the ".run"
> file, i am prompted for the sudo password and at if i run the machine
> for a little while, i am also prompted when i exit.
>
> .the old bdi system never prompted me for sudo passwords and i would
> like this new system to work the same way, but i would prefer not to run
> as root.  do you know the fix?  i did compile the system as root if that
> makes any difference.

As root, edit the /etc/sudoers file adding a line similar to:

david  ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL

Note - This will allow you (or anyone else with your login) to be able to run 
_any_ command as root. Please be careful when prepending sudo to a command.

Regards, Paul.