-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/12/2008 04:53 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: |>From the sudoers file: | | [...] | ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere | root ALL=(ALL) ALL | gene ALL=(ALL) ALL | | That 2nd line is the only addition to the file as distributed. | | Humm, stupid? question: Does this only take effect after a reboot? Cuz now | its working, not only from a shell I did an "su - gene" in but from a direct | login on tty2 as myself. | | Weird, I just took it back out, (vim said it was a read-only file so I had to | use the :w! to write it) and the lockout was instant: | | [gene@coyote ~]$ sudo ls -l | Sorry, user gene is not allowed to execute '/bin/ls -l' as root on | coyote.coyote.den. | | Same message I've been getting for a week or more, and its been at least a | week since I added the 'gene' line above without any visible effect. F8 is | gonna put me on the funny farm yet. And that ain't funny! Some might say | its not a long drive and offer to buy the gas even... | | So I then put it back in, and I'm allowed. Go figure, but I'd sure like to | know why the hell it hasn't worked until today... | | Thanks. Unless it upchucks on me again, I guess this is a 1 message thread.. | Take the "gene" line out of the sudo file. To edit it, use "visudo". Uncomment the "wheel" line: ~ ## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands ~ %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL Save the file and exit visudo. Now, edit /etc/group and add yourself to the wheel group. - -- ~ Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHiUrJeERILVgMyvARAtLyAJ9QVXCltsOviRr+WgQqPlSfToXo8ACeP6Ed yREPi/LkPQJS4Vyi0qK7kEQ= =nkpW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
