[juneau-lug] Re: How to repair sudo?
- From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 06:56:26 -0800
On Wednesday, April 08, 2015 06:45:29 Nels Tomlinson wrote:
> Here, between the equals signs, are the contents of the file. Henrik, I
> have attached the actual file again, also. This is the old file, from
> before I changed the sudo line to read sudo=(ALL) ALL.
> Do I need a % in front of sudo? It seems odd that visudo didn't complain,
> if that's a problem.
sudo is syntactically correct, so visudo won't complain. However it will
break the config.
sudo == a user named sudo.
%sudo == all members of the sudo group.
If I have been following the thread correctly there are two issues:
Your admin group is actually named adm, and adm is not in your sudoers file.
Your sudo entry is missing the group identifier.
With this version of the sudoers file I would fix those errors (assuming I'm
remembering the adm/admin thing correctly).
Also, one of the first things I do on an Ubuntu box is:
sudo su -
passwd
That way you don't have to reboot to single-user mode if sudo breaks.
(Of course I'm a Debian user, so to me using root is Just How It Works)
Cheers,
James
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