how a user can be added to sudoers file.

afaheem1988 · 08-04-2008, 08:49 AM

how a user can be added to sudoers file

checkmate3001 · 08-04-2008, 08:51 AM

run the command visudoer.
It will allow you to edit the file. Of course you likely have to have privledges.

trickykid · 08-04-2008, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by checkmate3001

run the command visudoer.
It will allow you to edit the file. Of course you likely have to have privledges.

Actually the command should just be visudo, at least from my experience on most distributions.

robogymnast · 08-06-2008, 09:30 PM

Also, be sure that to become root you use

Code:

su -

so that you inherit root's path (visudo is in /usr/sbin)

checkmate3001 · 08-10-2008, 07:10 PM

trickykid: Thanks for correcting me on that one. My mistake.

jschiwal · 08-10-2008, 07:15 PM

Most distro's have a group named "wheel" and you just need to make the user a member of the wheel group. Then look for the line near the end of the sudoers file with "%wheel". On a new installation you may need to uncomment the line.

Change the line like:

Code:

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

and remove the "# " to uncomment the line:

Code:

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