On 06/10/2013 09:38 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/10/2013 06:10 PM, Doug wrote:
You need to edit the sudoers file. You should find a copy that works
and make yours look like that. (Hint: you need to add a line with
your user name and the word ALL in it.) You can edit it with any
editor, or if you know vi, then you can use visudo. You will have to
have admin privileges to do this, so if you can't su to root, you
will need to find out how to do that, first.
And of course, if you can do that, you don't need sudo. To me, sudo
is a fine tool if you want to give access to a few admin tools to
people who don't (and shouldn't) know the root password. However, I
can't see the point of using it if you're the person who installed
Linux and created the root password.
For me personally, using sudo on a personal system is just best
practices since I administer other servers; discipline if you will.
Having done root and sudo at some point during my use of *nix the sudo
is not particularly inconvenient. If I have a few things to do as root
I will sudo. If I have several things to do as root I will su to root.
If I have root environment specific things I need to do I will su - or
login directly to root. I prefer not to stay there any longer than
necessary and for security my root pw tends to be, well... long. As
mentioned, it is the beauty of the *nix world. Do what works best for you.
Adding a user I simply edit the /etc/sudoers file with vi with the +
flag (so I don't have to scroll down so far) and add my user.
## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
edited to:
## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
user ALL=(ALL) ALL
This has worked for me.
Fred
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