Use fingerprint to authenticate on Ubuntu, and passwordless on some apps

Fingerprints, sudoers
ubuntu
Published

October 1, 2020

Fingerprint authentication

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Just by activating Fingerprint login, quite surprisingly it has been working directly.

Passwordless commands

Because I have changed my password for a quite complex one, I am interested to launch some sudo commands without prompt of password.

How to run sudo commands without password

Use visudo to update /etc/sudoers. I understand there is some syntax check to avoid mistake when editing this file. You don’t want to be left with a defective sudo system.

I have just added this line. explore is my username. I can add additional commands after a comma (e.g. /bin/systemctl restart httpd.service, /bin/kill)

explore ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt