sudoers list

Pedroski · 11-05-2009, 07:25 PM

How do I put myself in the sudoers list?? Apparently I'm not in it, even on my own laptop!

pljvaldez · 11-05-2009, 07:26 PM

You use visudo as root and add yourself.

ammorais · 11-05-2009, 07:29 PM

Login as root.

write:

Code:

visudo

edit this lines:

Code:

## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
%wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL

and add yourself to the whell group.

Code:

gpasswd -a myusername whell

Alternativly you can change it to:

Code:

myusername       ALL=(ALL)       ALL

Then you don't need to add yourself to the wheel group

Pedroski · 11-05-2009, 10:38 PM

Thanks. But once modified as you said: how do I save it? Can't seem to get out, and the man page doesn't offer much help.

ammorais · 11-06-2009, 10:20 AM

visudo uses the text editor vi. man vi or man vim.
you can also write vimtutor to learn how to use it.

If you are impatient:

Code:

i - enter the write mode
esc - exit the write mode
esc + :wq - write and exit