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Answer by Octávio Filipe Gonçalves for Execute sudo without Password?

You can configure sudo to never ask for your password.

Open a Terminal window and type:

sudo visudo

In the bottom of the file, add the following line:

$USER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Where $USER is your username on your system.Save and close the sudoers file (if you haven't changed your default terminal editor (you'll know if you have), press Ctl + x to exit nano and it'll prompt you to save).

As of Ubuntu 19.04, the file should now look something like

## This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.## Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of# directly modifying this file.## See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.#Defaults    env_resetDefaults    mail_badpassDefaults    secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin"# Host alias specification# User alias specification# Cmnd alias specification# User privilege specificationroot    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL# See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:#includedir /etc/sudoers.dYOUR_USERNAME_HERE ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

After this you can type sudo <whatever you want> in a Terminal window without being prompted for the password.

This only applies, to using the sudo command in the terminal. You'll still be prompted for your password if you (for example) try to install a package from the software center

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