sudoers list
where can i find this list, I've been using linux for about two years I'm an IT student and find it cool as NY is right now but I normally use ubuntu. today I got fed up of logging in as root every time I need to perform a minor admin task, so I decided to install "sudo", long story short when I tried to execute this usually simple command how shocked I was to be informed that not only don't I have permission to do so but I've been put on report(to whom i'm still Waiting to find out). I'm used to ubuntu, new to fedora,but I now understand the slogan "Linux For Human Beings"
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To edit sudoers run command "visudo". Check manual for sudoers ealier. Probably you need only add yourself to group admin as in sudoers file should be already
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# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges |
sudoers list?
use ubuntu new to fedora
used sudo all the time and never was put on report, and to whom am i being reported to? where is the "sudoer's list" located and who's idea was this? if i have the proper password, it's my computer, if its smart enough to put me on report then it should be smart enough to recognize a personal workstation from one that's connected to a administered network |
This should have been added to your existing post rather than double posting the same problem.
Attempts to use sudo by users that aren't in the sudoers file are reported to the root account. The system doesn't know that this is a personal machine so you can't really blame the OS for doing what it is programmed to do. As eSelix states in your other post, you should log in as root and use the visudo command to edit the sudoers file. Once you are in the sudoers file you won't be "reported" again. |
The (mis)use of sudo in Ubuntu is a special case, it is only done so in Ubuntu (and derived distros), and not in others. So it is Ubuntu that is behaving abnormal. In most other distros you use su to become root.
You can use Code:
su -c visudo To get more info how to do that try Code:
man sudoers |
Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread has been merged with the original.
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stand corrected
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in a grand scale, i'm new to IT and may be brainwashed by the "Windows" world don't you have to specify whether your logging on to the network or the workstation, or is that just a microsoft thing. if so that would be one way. if not.......well as I said I'm learning. |
First of all, the backup statement is part of my signature and was not meant directly for you, but for anyone who reads it. Just because there are many people which do not backup and the cry about lost data if anything goes wrong.
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