Enable passwordless sudo for a specific user

Passwordless sudo using Ansible

#!/usr/bin/env ansible-playbook

- hosts: YOUR_MACHINE
  tasks:
    - lineinfile:
        path: /etc/sudoers
        state: present
        regexp: '^%sudo'
        line: '%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL'
        validate: 'visudo -cf %s'

Activities

• Understand order rules are applied and impact: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Set_Vim_as_your_default_editor_for_Unix

See also

• sudo, visudo, su, passwd, sudo su, Passwordless sudo, /etc/sudoers, /etc/sudoers.d/, /etc/sudoers, sudo --help
• useradd
• DevOps/Ansible/Configure user to be able to use sudo with no password
• Ansible
• vim