sudo sorrows

Aaron Matteson fedora at cryptosystem.us
Mon Mar 1 23:14:52 UTC 2004


Aaron became daring and sent these 0.8K bytes,
> Thanks
> I recently read so much about su that the su- flew by me.
> As you said viola there is visudo.
> Thanks
> Aaron
> On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 01:06, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:01, Aaron wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I am returning to the list after beta testing Xandros,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to setup sudo on Fedora core 1, but I don't find the visudo
> > > command anywhere, although there is a man page for it.
> > > 
> > > Am I missing something?
> > > 
> > > I need to set sudo up but am stymied.
> > 
> > `rpm -ql sudo | grep vi` shows that it is in /usr/sbin/visudo.  You have
> > to run this as root, and the best way to do that is to use `su -`
> > instead of plain `su`.  That way /usr/sbin/ and /sbin will be in your
> > path.

hmm, su - flew my coupe too. :)

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