Not working too well.

It still brings up the old visudo.

There is every need for a password. With this kind of setup youir day-to-day user can just execute a script requiring sudo. If you accidentally double-click in a file manager window or accidentally allow a bash completion you don't want you run it as root if it includes sudo.

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a fat lady walks into a dress store, tries on a dress, it does not fit. So she tries it again. it still does not fit, so she has someone come and help her.

He tells her if it does not fit then stop trying it on.

Nice story.
ghe ¦opassword setup you describe is pretty-much the same as logging in as root. I have seen some issues with running things with root instead of user also. Accidentally type "sudo" before an application then find it doesn't work for the usual user, for example.
Lets not be silly here. i respect your choice to run a system like that but to suggest another do so without adequate warning I had to reply to.

a educated fat lady that didn't lie to herself about what she knew walked into a dress store, She picked out the correct size dress the left happily.

I said try that not live it. I have never ran into that problem you speak of.

did your mom warn you before telling you to try peas, or did she think you where old enough to figure it out on your own?

You suggested somebody remove the guard from their bandsaw but neglected to tell them it may cost limbs...

a man is walking towards a hole in the middle of the road. what do you do tell him to go around it, or wait to see if he falls in it?

if a monkey had a banana would you give him an apple?

A guy was hitchhiking.

A trucker pulling a trailer with 20 new cars pulled over.

He told the hitchhiker, "It's crowded in the cab, pick out a car and get in."

The trucker picked up 19 other hitchhikers.

He went 90 mph and got pulled over by a cop.

They all got speeding tickets.

A little knowledge is dangerous.
so is a lot

chuckle chuckle

I would suggest making a backup before taking any mind-altering drugs.

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yes you would. because you said so, and that's the only reason.

BW is suggesting you be a cowboy. There is a reason (a darn good one) for operating as a non-privileged user for day-to-day tasks... is all. Which is why sudo is important, more control over what a user can do. If a systems administrator wants a user to be able to run the adduser command and nothing else(that requires elevated privileges) then sudo is the man for the job. password-less? Come on, BW (Senior Member) you should know better than suggesting something like that to a newb.

go look at his side bar. here let me show it to you
for one,
two having a no password.
for one to say "There is every need for a password." if that where a true statement, Then the ones that developed this sudo file would have never put in the ability to have No Password.

This ability to use sudo without a password NULL and VOIDS that previous statement.

another point, he is using this as a test install. what better time to experiment and hone ones skills? Not that that was the reason I told him to give it a try. look up with word 'try' .

another point, if one does not allow someone the ability to screw up something then how will they learn anything?

do you think I started using this sudo no password before or after I was labeled as a newbee in Linux Questions?

Nothing wrong with setting up your own user as a no password account.

Nothing wrong with giving someone else no password rights.

if you say it is not a good idea on this biases
so he or she has no password and makes that mistake do we blame it on the fact that it was because one gave that user a no password priveages ?

NO that is scapegoating.

if he or she had to put in a pass word that would still not have stopped them from running that vary same command. It would only have made them preform one more step before entering it in to the command line.


it matters not if one has to use a password or not if they run the wrong command then the damage is done regardless if they put in a pass word or not.

even in root one can make a mistake where they still do not have to use a pass word.