using sudo

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Steven Stern
<subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
> On 05/24/2010 03:48 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, terry <xtlynne at charter.net> wrote:
>>> I've looked  through the systems > administation but cannot figure how
>>> to put myself in the file where I can use  say sudo yum something
>>> without having to use su ,  passwd each time I need to be root
>>> thank you.
>>
>> I assume that you would like it where the sudo does not require a
>> password either? In that case su into a root terminal login and type
>> "visudo". Twards the bottom of the file there is a line that is
>> commented out that allows all users of the "wheel" group to access all
>> commands without a password. Uncomment the line and save the file,
>> i.e. ":wq". Use the GUI User and Groups control panel to add yourself
>> to the "wheel" group and logout and back in. If you did everything
>> correctly then you should be able to "sudo <command>" anything and it
>> should work without prompting for a password.
>>
>
>
> Evil foolishness!  One should always require a password for sudo.  It's
> like an "Are You Sure?" prompt.

I don't setup mine with the NOPASSWD option, but he asked... :)

Richard