Sudo prompt should be early

[ryansch]

Instead of waiting for the nfs stuff to prompt for sudo (when the user's attention may have wandered while waiting) we should prompt the user early with a no-op sudo command (ex: sudo true).

[codekitchen]

I think the main reason I hesitate to +1 this is I have my sudo configured to require my password every time -- so this would force me to enter my password an extra time.

[ryansch]

Configurable?

I'm actually doing this already in a wrapper script that we use.

[zacheryph]

Another alternative,

Give an option to either "install" or print the actually commands / sudoers configuration options (with NOPASSWD) so sudoers file can be updated to not require a password for these.

[zacheryph]

I am not a sudoers guru, but this is what I ended up doing. This could easily be extended to using a dinghy group for allowing multiple users to do it.

/etc/sudoers.d/dinghy

Cmnd_Alias DINGHY_NFS = /usr/local/bin/dinghy nfs *

my_username ALL = NOPASSWD: DINGHY_NFS

[josefglatz]

@zacheryph @codekitchen @ryansch I've wrote an article about codekitchen/dinghy and added also the passwordless configuration for the setup of the macOS DNS resolution:

• https://productiveness.josefglatz.at/migrate-from-webdevops-vagrant-docker-vm-to-codekitchen-dinghy-4da3a9e91feb
• https://gist.github.com/josefglatz/9955f46f806e0c699051de84d6e5f37b#file-sudoers-personal-cheatsheet-L1