sudo doesn't work, I'm not in sudoers file, but I am.

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 12 January 2008, Steven Stern wrote:
>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
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>| use the :w! to write it) and the lockout was instant:
>|
>| [gene at 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.
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>F8 is
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>| gonna put me on the funny farm yet.  And that ain't funny!  Some might
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>say
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>| 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
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>like to
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>| 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".

I was using vim, having forgotten about 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.
>
And that works too, thanks, Steve.
>--
>
>~  Steve



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