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Usually you’ll use it to execute a single command: sudo dmesg or to start a shell: sudo -s sudo is similar to the su command – the su command also allows you to become another user (most likely root). … Next, load /etc/sudoers in your favorite text editor, and add a line to it that looks like this: USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Replace USERNAME with your short username (so in my case, my username is romkey or johnromkey rather than ‘John Romkey’ ). You can find your username with the who command – but if you don’t already know what it is or who to find it, you probably shouldn’t be disabling passwords on sudo in the first place. … There are other ways to do this (in particular, there are ways to say that anyone in a particular UNIX group can become use sudo without a password), but this is the simplest way to let a single user do this. Continue reading →