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Allow passwordless sudo on your admin account

As this account could be used for automation purposes, it would defeat the purpose if you had to enter a password after every command, thus we will allow your non-root user to run commands as the root user without entering a password.

Instructions:

  1. Login to your VM as your non-root user.
  2. Edit the Sudoers file by running the following command; 
    sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers
  3. Comment the following line - ‘%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL’
  4. Uncomment the following line - ‘#%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL’
  5. Save and close the file.
  6. Test that you can sudo to root without a password, by entering ‘sudo -i’
  7. Type exit to log out as the root user.

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