[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

Jon Ingason jon.ingason at telia.com
Mon Mar 21 21:24:42 UTC 2011


2011-03-21 22:06, Joe Zeff skrev:
> On 03/21/2011 01:53 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:19:21 -0700
>> Joe Zeff wrote:
>>
>>> In
>>> fact, in Fedora, you can't even set sudo up so that you can use it
>>> without using the *root password!*
>>
>> Sure you can:
>>
>> tom     ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
>
> To do that you have to modify the sudo user's file.  (don't remember the
> exact name)  Don't you need root access (i.e. the password) to do that?

Read the man page "man sudo". And yes you need to be superuser (root) to 
change /etc/sudoers. You must do it with visudo, see "man visudo".

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Regards
Jon Ingason


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