[mythtv-users] About updating from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04

Peter Bennett pb.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue May 5 13:00:01 UTC 2026


On 5/5/26 02:17, James Linder via mythtv-users wrote:
> no matter what follows sudo should ask for a password unless sudo is primed (for a timeout it won’t ask for another password)
> and 24.04 does do $ sudo mysql ….. without asking for a mysql password
> so very bad == seriously broken mysql setup
> James
>
You can create entries in sudoers to allow certain commands via sudo 
without a sudo password. I use that when I have commands that run in 
scripts. For example:

%mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown




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