Sudo i Mandriva 2007

TheOnes · 10-18-2006, 03:39 AM

When im installing Mandriva 2007, everything works great.

But when Im installing something and write for exampel:

"sudo makeinstall" and it popup ups that I should write my sudo password, only one BIG problem. When Im installing the OS I dont get the question about set a sudo pass!! Im so confuside.. :S

How can I finde out what my sudo pass is?

//Adrian Larsson..

P.S Im from Sweden so sorry for bad english.

monolegis · 10-18-2006, 05:00 AM

Don't you have the administrator password?

At the install, didn't you get this picture?

If you know your admin password try to just change to root before you do make.

su (press enter)
type in your password and press enter
then do make.

I didn't even know you could do a sudo in mandriva..

Lykke til

sn68 · 10-18-2006, 07:24 AM

sudo password should be nothing but your own login password, however for a user to do sudo, the name should figure in /etc/sudoers file as shown below

root ALL=(ALL) ALL
username ALL=(ALL) ALL

The /etc/sudoers file can be edited only with the command
visudo -f /etc/sudoers

(press i to insert, esc & wq to save, ZZ to quit editing)

reddazz · 10-18-2006, 09:19 AM

Mandriva does not use sudo like Ubuntu. It uses a classical root account, so do something like

Code:

#su -c "make install"

Enter the root password when prompted.

TheOnes · 10-18-2006, 09:55 AM

Thx for the hints!

Sabinou · 10-19-2006, 06:19 AM

Thanks for the sudoers info, that might be why sudo never worked on my system before, even when I provided the correct root password ^^
I've been using kdesu instead eversince because of that.

sn68 · 10-19-2006, 06:49 AM

A very good article on su, su -c, and sudo for mandriva

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/KB/AdminAroot2

shame · 11-10-2006, 11:24 PM

Can I just clarify something here?
I have set up sudo on various distros, including mandriva and I noticed that with some it asks for my own password and others it asks for the root password.
Looking through some of my sudoers files, a couple I have the %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL and others I have username ALL=(ALL) ALL.
So is that the difference? %wheel = root password and username = user password?

reddazz · 11-11-2006, 03:11 AM

I am not sure what could be causing that behaviour for you, but as far as I know, username ALL=(ALL) ALL usually asks you for your own password and not roots. In Linux, if you are in the wheel group, you can run any commands (including those that are normally reserved just for root) without entering a password. On other Unix OSes e.g. FreeBSD, if you are in the wheel group, it means that you are allowed to use "su" or "su -" in order to switch to root. Everyone else who is not in the wheel group cannot switch to root.