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I am trying to set the scp as a specific user with NOPASSWD.

alice ALL = (bob:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/scp

As I did understand from this question. However when I save using my visudo I still can't run sudo -u bob /usr/bin/scp bob@scp_client:upload_this_file.

What should be included within the command to allow no password scp for alice as bob (but not as root).

Note: I did see this, also I feel that everything is in the correct order in my sudoers file as I know about the order of commands like you can learn here.

The entire visudo file:

#
# 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_reset
Defaults    mail_badpass
Defaults    insults
Defaults    secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

# Host alias specification
    # Dropped this as it doesn't really matter..

# User alias specification
    # Dropped this as it doesn't really matter..

# Cmnd alias specification
    # Dropped this as it doesn't really matter..

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

# We have admin groups (Todo: make this smaller)
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

# Include the sudoers.d
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d

# One to rule all of them
alice ALL = (bob:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/scp
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  • Are you sure the password being asked is by sudo and not by SSH? – muru Apr 01 '15 at 09:27
  • Yes I have passwordless SSH with both alice and bob. I have verified this with ssh alice@node ; ssh bob@node – Stolas Apr 01 '15 at 09:28
  • All that proves is that your current account has passwordless SSH, and says nothing about whether bob's account has passwordless SSH to bob's account on node. – muru Apr 01 '15 at 09:29
  • Indeed I stand corrected, I did the following:
    • As alice I did ssh bob@node
    • As alice I did sudo -s to get a rootshell, and promote myself to bob with sudo -u bob -s.
    • As bob I did ssh bob@node

    Works as expected.

     – Stolas Apr 01 '15 at 09:32

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Managed to sudo -u bob -- ssh bob@node
Seems that sudo was passing the scp commands.

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