Are you tired of having to provide your administrator password when you use sudo
? In this tutorial you will learn how to configure sudo
without the password on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux. This means that the sudo
command will not prompt you to enter password hence rendering your sudo
command completely without a password.
Configuring your
sudo
command with no password may lead to a security breach, hence leaving your system and data compromised. You are adviced not to proceed with sudo
passwordless configuration except on test systems or in niche scenarios!In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to disable password for the
sudo
command - How to disable
sudo
password for a specific administrative commands

Category | Requirements, Conventions or Software Version Used |
---|---|
System | Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish |
Software | N/A |
Other | Privileged access to your Linux system as root or via the sudo command. |
Conventions |
# – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command$ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user |
Configure sudo without password on Ubuntu 22.04 step by step instructions
- First you might want to consider to disable sudo password only for a selected administrative command(s). To do so you need to edit the
/etc/sudoers
sudo configuration command using thesudo visudo
editor. For example, to allow a single user eg.linuxconfig
to execute thesystemctl
andreboot
commands withoutsudo
password add the following line into the/etc/sudoers
configuration file:linuxconfig ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/systemctl /usr/sbin/reboot
At this point executing the
systemctl
andreboot
commands will not requiresudo
password. - Next, if you wish the
linuxconfig
user to execute all commands using sudo with no password change the configuration line fromStep 1 to:linuxconfig ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
- Lastly, in case you need all members of the
sudo
group to execute any commands using passwordlesssudo
, change the configuration line fromStep 1 to:%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Closing Thoughts
In this tutorial, you saw how to disable the sudo
password on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Linux. Most seasoned users know that typing the sudo
password all the time can get tiring, but that is how you keep your system completley secure. If you are working with a test system or isolated computer, then this security recommendation can just be annoying and in those situations it is okay to disable the sudo
password.