[juneau-lug] Re: visudo

  • From: "Charles R. Hakari" <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 19:30:47 -0900

I guess so. By reading the documentation, it made it sound like this 
file should only be edited with visudo. I guess visudo does some special 
things like locks and integrity checking, but I guess in a single user 
environment, doing what you did is o.k. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

Chuck

Jamie wrote:

>I just edited my /etc/sudoers file (without visudo) and added a line.
>
># User privilege specification
>jamie   ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
>Would this work for you?
>
>-Jamie
>
>Charles R. Hakari wrote:
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>>I just upgraded my Fedora Core 1 system using apt-get. I did it by doing 
>>a su to root, but I would like to get sudo setup so I can run it that 
>>way instead. I did install synaptic, so I have a graphical way of 
>>running apt, but I would like to do it from the command line most of the 
>>time. Could someone walk me through the processing of editing the config 
>>file for sudo using visudo? Vi is a bit cryptic and I don't want to take 
>>the time to learn it just for this one task.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Chuck Hakari
>>
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