[Chester LUG] visudo is driving me round the twist

[Stuart Burns]

Thanks for that. I realised I made a silly mistake in not running sudo
before doing the commands (oops)

2008/10/24 Roger Downing <roger.downing at stfc.ac.uk>

> On Thursday 23 October 2008 22:39:37 Stuart Burns wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Hopefully a quickish question.
> >
> > I'm trying to set up sudoer file but failing badly.
> >
> > I am running suse SLES 10.2 but hitting a problem.
> >
> > I have a user called adam ;) that I want to allow to run the sudo
> command,
> > via the sudoer file....
> >
> > However trying to make it work, fails miserably.
> >
> > Can anyone who has 5 mins post a proper sudoer file ?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Stuart.
> >
> The most basic rule, which would allow a named user to run any command as
> root, would be:
> adam    ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> This permits user adam, logged in at any host (this allows for shared
> sudoers files across many machines), to run any command as any user.
>
> Are you using the 'visudo' command to do the editing of the /etc/sudoers
> file? This will validate the file each time.
>
> As requested, here is a working but basic one straight from ubuntu 8.04:
> --- SNIP ---
>
> # /etc/sudoers
> #
> # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
> #
> # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
> # Host alias specification
>
> # User alias specification
>
> # Cmnd alias specification
>
> # Defaults
>
> Defaults        !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn
>
> # User privilege specification
> root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
> %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> --- SNIP ---
>
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