(Help!) Sudo doesn't ask for password in AL 9 WSL

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Hi all!

I am glad to announce that I am a newcomer to the linux community (please be nice) and after trying Fedora as my first linux distro I decided to install AlmaLinux 9 WSL in my windows machine to keep practising bash commands (I prefer to learn with RHEL-based distros since it’s an industry and science standard).

Problem is AL 9 in WSL doesn’t ask for a password when using the sudo command, which I find pretty unsafe. After googling thoroughly, I checked the /etc/sudoers file and even though I have the “user_name ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL” commented and I set the timestamp_timeout to 0, still doesn’t ask for a password.

So please, if anyone could help me I will be very grateful.

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Use the “id” command to see what groups the user belongs to. Check /etc/sudoers to make sure any groups do not have the NOPASSWD option. If you have made changes to the sudoers file (using visudo), log out and log back in.

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Furthermore, check what is in /etc/sudoers.d/. (That is the place, where you should add custom rules.)

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I used the id command and the output was the following:

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

Any groups has the NOPASSWD option since y commented the whole line in the sudoers config file.

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This worked! There was a “default_user” file where the only line was the NOPASSWD option was configured for my user, I commented it and now it ask for the password.

Thank you very much to all of you for your help!

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