Syntax error in /etc/sudoers.d/file

[Tony Arnold]

Hi Bob.


On Thu, 2021-05-13 at 20:08 -0700, Bob wrote:
> In Ubuntu 20.10 I had added a line
> 
> robert ALL=NOPASSWORD: /bin/mount
> 
> in the file /etc/sudoers.  The upgrade to Ubuntu 21.04 overrode that
> line.  I
> now see that was the wrong place for the change I wanted to do.  So I
> have now
> created a new file /etc/sudoers.d/robert and entered the same
> line.  Now I am
> getting a syntax error.
> 
> /etc/sudoers.d/robert:1:34: syntax error
> robert ALL=NOPASSWORD: /bin/mount
>                                  ^
> 
> With a fixed font the ^ is the space after the end of the line.

Random thought but is there a newline character at the end of that
line?

Regards,
Tony.
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