Thanks, Paul. By default sudoers is not writable so in order to make changes. Nick. _____ From: maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Klapperich Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:38 PM Cc: maemo-users at maemo.org Subject: Re: Visudo Help I'm not sure if it has visudo or not and my unit isn't handy, but here's a safety net: Install OpenSSH or Dropbear, then do sudo gainroot passwd enter a root password Now if you mess up your /etc/sudoers, you can always open Putty/Xterm on your desktop and ssh into the root account using the root password you created. Additionally, you could do the above without ssh, or with /etc/ssh/sshd modified to disallow root login. You should be able to switch to the root user using 'su' if you have a root password set and known. You may need to add 'user' to the wheel group or something, though Why did you change the permissions to sudoers in the first place? My mistake is usually syntax errors inside /etc/sudoers. Oops. --Paul On 8/15/07, Dr. Nicholas Shaw <Doc at docharley.com> wrote: Ok, after my major screw-up last week (I directly modified the sudoers file but failed to change the permissions back to 0444), I flashed to the newest OS upgrade and re-installed all of my applications. Now I need to modify the sudoers file and plan to do it CORRECTLY this time, e.g. use visudo. Now my problem - I can't find visudo anywhere on the N800. Is it available separately or am I just not looking in the right place? Or is there some other way that doesn't use visudo? I've looked in /usr/bin and /bin. Thanks much in advance! Nick. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users at maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070816/11d2d5e1/attachment.htm
