So, I finally got sick of typing my root user password in my Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), *nix Docker containers and Linux servers…
The answer (for some flavours of *nux): just create an addendum to /etc/sudoers by creating any new file in the /etc/sudoers.d/ directory!
Very simply:
- create a new file (e.g.
sudoers) (I assume you know how to usevi, else just replace vi with text editor of choice as available!)
sudo vi /etc/sudoers.d/sudoers- add the following line, replacing
<user>as with the user name, then save and quit
<user> ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Disconnect, re-connect with non-root account, type sudo bash and root away!
2021/07/21 Update: If you are not a masochist, use
visudo– it parses the edits on exit and spits it back at you if there are any syntax/parsing errors.
