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I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 and joined this to our company domain. When i log in as a domain user with my domain passwd it works perfectly, also i can have sudo right so i can become a root user. To achieve this i've added my domain name to the sudoers file at the bottom like %xxxx ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

But the thing is, when i want to add a printer thru the desktop GUI i will be prompted for the local administrators passwd.

Is there a way around this because in this way i will have to hand out our domain administrators passwd or i will need to create a passwd specific for this use?

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  • Why not start the GUI with sudo...? – Thomas Sep 15 '16 at 13:14
  • because some applications when started need access to domain servers and these will use root as username ones started with sudo. This is obviously not a domainuser with privileges on the needed servers. – wduizer Sep 15 '16 at 13:40
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Sometimes life is simple.... the solution was to add the domainuser via the terminal as a sudoer so open the terminal and perform: sudo adduser xxxx sudo

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