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[Michael Terry <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Right, but that wasn't my question.  I don't want to use a password to
> unlock my phone screen.  I *do* want a password for sudo use over adb.  Is
> this supported, or not?
>

Disabling sudo on pseudo-ttys when the user has no password is the policy
enforced by the "nullok_secure" PAM option that Ubuntu uses.  So without
further changes, that isn't supported.

-mt