Sometimes that sudo password prompt is just too much to bother with on your nice home system. Should you turn it off? Probably not. But if you are just on a local system that you are playing around with I can’t see there being much harm. Here is how to turn off sudo password prompts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open up a terminal and throw in the following command: ”sudo visudo”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Followed by throwing this line in at the bottom: “ Sometimes that sudo password prompt is just too much to bother with on your nice home system. Should you turn it off? Probably not. But if you are just on a local system that you are playing around with I can’t see there being much harm. Here is how to turn off sudo password prompts: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonstockings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<user> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL<\/code>” changing <user> for the name of the user you want to be given this lazy power. Save and exit and you now have the lazy power of no sudo password prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"