Answered by another poster - look at the timeout section of the man page.
There isn't any NOPASSWD, but if I give the password the first time, sudo doesn't ask for it anymore in the next 5 min or so...
With sudo you get *logging* of every command the person using sudo runs. You don't get that if they use su (except for root's .history file.)
I think I really misunderstood the purpose of sudo. I thought that it was used to automatically login as root, give a command, and log back out to user who invoked the command. So what's the purpose of asking for the password of the actually logged in user?
The purpose of sudo is to allow "normal" users to issue *certain* commands with root privileges *and* to track what they do for accountability purposes. (Who deleted /usr? (*&)(&@#(&@!!!)
The timeout is to facilitate the use of the command without having to constantly type your password. Imagine having to type your password every time you issue a command. It would get irritating real quick.
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