paswordless sudo in Raspbian

[taylorkh]

The Raspbian documentation https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... e/users.md explains how to add a user, make the user a sudoer and optionally to grant them passwordless sudo access. This is consistent with other Linux distros with which I am familiar. My question is...

How/why does the user account pi have passwordless sudo permission? I find no

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pi   ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

entry in /etc/sudoers.

TIA,

Ken

[tpyo kingg]

It's deeper. If you read /etc/sudoers, near the end you'll see

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#includedir /etc/sudoers.d

Confusing as it is, that is not a comment but a call to include the configuration files found in the directory /etc/sudoers.d

There you will find a file named /etc/sudoers.d/010_pi-nopasswd and in that ...

See "man sudoers" and wade through down to where it discusses "Including other files from within sudoers"

[taylorkh]

Thanks tpyo kingg,

That explains it exactly.

Ken