Is it me or is it sudo?

[Mark Haney]

On 03/29/2012 09:13 AM, Alick Zhao wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:48:47 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:

>
> I think William Hooper has explained that sudo will look through the
> conf file and use the line that matches. So it is quite possible that
> the line with %wheel comes after the line with your user name, so the
> conf for wheel (which default to password needed) takes precedence.
>
> To fix your issue, you probably should move the line with your user name
> below the line with %wheel. However, if you have enabled wheel group,
> uncomment the line containing '%wheel ... NOPASSWD' might also be OK.
> No need to add an additional line.
>

That's true.  However, as I've explained, that line is commented out 
while I'm debugging the issue with the username.  I suppose, push comes 
to shove that I can use an empty sudoers file except for that one line 
in order to make absolutely certain nothing else is interfering, but 
since Aaron Konstam verified that is /should/ work as I have it (as well 
as others) I don't think I need to go that drastic.

The one thing I haven't done is post my entire sudoers file.  I will if 
anyone thinks it'll help.

I'm really not trying to be difficult here, but this is driving me nuts.


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Mark Haney
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