Is it me or is it sudo?

[ny6p01 at gmail.com]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 05:29:25PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 28.03.2012 17:22, schrieb Frank Murphy:
> > On 28/03/12 14:18, Mark Haney wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
> >> root ALL=(ALL) ALL
> >> markh ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
> > 
> > try removing the space
> > markh ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
> > to:
> > markh ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
> > 
> > But are you certain,
> > no one else has access to your PC?
> 
> the space is not related, no idea why not working for the OP
> 
> see line below, this one works on a machine currently
> F16 since it was installed with F9 in summer 2008
> 
> [root at buildserver:~]$ cat /etc/sudoers | grep builduser
> builduser   ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
> ________________

I had an installation once where you had to add spaces around the 'equal'
sign. FWIW dept. :)

> 
> on a usual desktop PC with a standard-user it is a VERY bad
> idea because any attacker only needs to try "sudo anything"
> to get full control over the machine
> 
> this should be only used for special accounts on well
> secured machines where no foreign code is running
> 
> 



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