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Old 09-12-2007, 01:43 PM   #1
mokku
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how to provide sudo access


Hi,

How to provide sudo access to regular account? Please help me.

thanks
 
Old 09-12-2007, 02:09 PM   #2
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You need to edit the /etc/sudoers file by using the command visudo (this will put you in a vi editor, it's possible to use other editors, but this way keeps you from editing it in a way that will break sudo).

For example I have sudo only working for specified commands this (note this is all one line, with a space for nopassword options:
andy ALL=/bin/mount,/bin/umount,/usr/bin/pacman,/usr/sbin/hibernate,/opt/kde/bin/knetworkmanager, NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt,/sbin/reboot

If you have the line that looks like this
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
it will allow anybody that's in the wheel group to use sudo for all commands (similar to what ubuntu has for the original user)
 
  


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