Restart Print server with Xterm, but without a password

[Aurbo]

Greetings

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 on a home network (without internet access)

Occasionally I need to restart the print server.

xterm -e 'sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart'

each time it asks for the password but because this is a closed network, I'd like to dispense with it asking for the user password each time.

Any suggestions?

[reed9]

You can edit the sudoer file to disable passwords for specific commands.
Sudoers Manual

Something like

aurbo localhost = NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/samba restart

Use visudo to edit. It uses vi as the default editor. You might want to change that to something like nano, which is a little more intuitive to use.

sudo EDITOR=nano visudo

[Aurbo]

Thanks,

I'll give it a try


Steve