Re: Displaying errors to users

"Todd C. Miller" <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:54:20 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tools.sudo.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:19:59 -0500, seph wrote:

> Using a very small configuration:
> Defaults      passwd_tries=0, passwd_timeout=0
> ALL ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: !/bin/cat
> %vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
> frank ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/ls

The problem is the "passwd_tries=0" setting.  If you remove that
the user will receive the error message after first entering their
password.

I've just committed a fix for this.  As a workaround you could do:

Defaults !authenticate

if you never want to require the user to enter a password.

 - todd
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