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Old 05-14-2005, 12:29 PM   #1
darkleaf
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/etc/sudo


I'm writing this from the example on the sudo site but it doesn't work:

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

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

philip qemu = (root) /usr/bin/qemu
The idea is that my account (philip) ca only run qemu as root. How would I change this cause I can't see how it's different except for some variables from this example:

Quote:
dgb boulder = (operator) /bin/ls, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/lprm
Which should allow user dgb to run ls, kill and lprm as op.

When I run qemu with sudo as my user it says I'm not allowed to do so. Should I relogin before this works? Thanks in advance for the help!
 
Old 05-14-2005, 01:36 PM   #2
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this can get kind of picky when you try to do it by hand
try

philip ALL=/usr/bin/qemu

edit: i'm sure you meant this but the file is named sudoers and not sudo yes?

Last edited by foo_bar_foo; 05-14-2005 at 01:38 PM.
 
Old 05-14-2005, 03:08 PM   #3
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Yes I meant /etc/sudoers Must have made that error cause of visudo

Thanks it's working Could that be because I didn't make a alias group or something like that?
 
  


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