I have sudo installed on my wife's machine, and a graphical menu in X to
allow her (as a regular user) to mount, unmount and eject floppies and
the CDROM. There's an entry in the /etc/sudoers file that allows her to
do this, and it all works fine. The commands in the menu are on the
order of sudo mount -t ext2 .... And on her machine, she is _never_
required to provide a password for this.
I'm trying to do the same thing on our laptop, and it all works the
same, except that it insists on her giving her password in order to
mount, unmount, etc. This is in line with the sudo docs. Which makes me
wonder why the sudo on her machine doesn't ask for a password.
One additional oddity. On the laptop, there's a directory called
/var/run/sudo/nancyf that is apparently a timestamp, allowing sudo to
request a password after a certain period of time has elapsed. But on
her desktop, there is no such file. The versions of sudo are the same,
same version number, same distro.
In case it isn't clear, I'm trying to work it out so she doesn't have to
give a password on the laptop for sudo stuff. Any clues would be
helpful.
Paul
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