problem with sudo

[Geoffrey Leach]

any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo)

[Sam Varshavchik]

Geoffrey Leach writes:

>  any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with
> visudo) 
Perhaps if you try to actually describe what your problem is, someone might  
be able to figure it out for you.

But merely stating that you have some kind of a "problem with sudo" is not  
very illuminating.

[Geoffrey Leach]

Hmmmm .... good question. It appears that gmail lost most of the original
mail.  So, trying again ....

The problem is that having used visudo to give user geoff (a member of
wheel) the necessary permissions to access root without password,i.e.,,
%wheel  ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
it appears that everything is set up correctly,

geoff@webster[94] ~: sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for geoff on webster:
    always_set_home, match_group_by_gid, always_query_group_plugin,
env_reset,
    env_keep="COLORS DISPLAY HOSTNAME HISTSIZE KDEDIR LS_COLORS",
    env_keep+="MAIL QTDIR USERNAME LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE",
    env_keep+="LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES",
    env_keep+="LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE",
    env_keep+="LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS _XKB_CHARSET XAUTHORITY",

secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin\:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin

User geoff may run the following commands on webster:
    (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Yet the simplest test fails:

geoff@webster[95] ~: touch /foo
touch: cannot touch '/foo': Permission denied

Running a script that requires mount (which works as intended in v35

geoff@webster[100] ~/Perl: perl fix.pl
mount: /Media/USB/usb2: must be superuser to use mount.

So I'm perplexed.



On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 6:36 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com&gt;
wrote:

>  Geoffrey Leach writes:
>
>  > any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo)
>
>  Perhaps if you try to actually describe what your problem is, someone
>  might
>  be able to figure it out for you.
>
>  But merely stating that you have some kind of a "problem with sudo" is
>  not
>  very illuminating.
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[Samuel Sieb]

On 11/19/22 20:37, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>  Yet the simplest test fails:
>  
>  geoff@webster[95] ~: touch /foo
>  touch: cannot touch '/foo': Permission denied 
You have to actually *use* sudo...

e.g. "sudo touch /foo"

[Slade Watkins]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 9:14 PM Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach.gl(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo)
>  
What's going on?

-srw

[Geoffrey Leach]

sorry, i don't understand the question. the goal is for a normal user to be
able ....
O bother. I see what I'm doing. I must say 'sudo ...'  before the command.

Sorry for the confusion.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 8:45 PM Slade Watkins via users <
users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 9:14 PM Geoffrey Leach
> <geoffleach.gl(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  >
>  > any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo)
>  >
>
>  What's going on?
>
>  -srw
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[Geoffrey Leach]

I'm embarrassed. O well,, at least i have it right now :-(

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 8:52 PM Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach.gl(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  sorry, i don't understand the question. the goal is for a normal
> user to
>  be able ....
>  O bother. I see what I'm doing. I must say 'sudo ...'  before the command.
>
>  Sorry for the confusion.
>
>  On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 8:45 PM Slade Watkins via users <
>  users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 9:14 PM Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach.gl(a)gmail.com&gt;
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo)
> > >
> >
> > What's going on?
> >
> > -srw
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