Hi guys

well i am trying to edit the sudoers file using visudo, i uncommented the lines that prevent users from using the mount command without root password, when i try to mount cd's without root password i still get a message saying that i require the root password. how can i fix this issue.........im trying to do this with suse 10.2 ubuntu and slackware 11.......

Please post the exact line from sudoers and exact command you type. I hope you prepended sudo to the command, for example, and sudoers file does not require users to belong to group you don't have on the box.

This is what my sudoers file look like.


# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification

# prevent environment variables from influencing programs in an
# unexpected or harmful way (CVE-2005-2959, CVE-2005-4158,
# CVE-2006-0151)
Defaults always_set_home
Defaults env_reset

# In the default (unconfigured) configuration, sudo asks for the root password.
# This allows use of an ordinary user account for administration of a freshly
# installed system. When configuring sudo, delete the two
# following lines:
Defaults targetpw # ask for the password of the target user i.e. root
ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING! Only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'!

# Runas alias specification

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

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

# Same thing without a password
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples
%users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
%users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now


well that i did was uncomment the last few lines as you can see.........then i tried to mount a cd and i got the error message.

Looking at other examples in my default sudoers file use it like this.
%users ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/ifdown, /sbin/ifup, /bin/mount

Brian

I am not sure if %users includes every user. I guess it is considered ordinary UNIX user group.

Also targetpw is reducing sudo to su in some sense.

Really it is better to just add the users to the wheel group so only a few have usage of certain commands instaed of giving it to all. Or create addtional groups and ad users to it and limit the commands.

Brian

Could anyone post there sudoers file? Smb4k screwed mine all up.

Thanks for the quick response