Freespire-Want to set up password for sudo

obnascar · 09-29-2006, 11:23 AM

I can not seem to find any info on how to set up a passwrod for sudo. I am runing Freespire and its default does not require entering a password for sudo.

But I want an extra security layer. How do I do this ?

pljvaldez · 09-29-2006, 11:47 AM

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...Users_and_Sudo

Edit the sudoers file as root using visudo from the command line. Then delete NOPASSWD from the line for your user (or comment out the line if its for all users). I would read up a bit on sudo just for the sake of not screwing it up. But you can always su to root and then visudo to fix it. Here's a really basic sudoers file

Code:

#/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
johndoe  ALL= ALL

obnascar · 11-03-2006, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pljvaldez

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...Users_and_Sudo

Edit the sudoers file as root using visudo from the command line. Then delete NOPASSWD from the line for your user (or comment out the line if its for all users). I would read up a bit on sudo just for the sake of not screwing it up. But you can always su to root and then visudo to fix it.

I guess I did goof it up, I get this now when entering a command in a terminal and when trying to access Krusader root:

Code:

sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0744, should be 0440

Quote:

But you can always su to root and then visudo to fix it.

I'm not sure what fix it means.....fix it how ?

But I did made a backup of my orignial "sudoers" file, and when I use that it still gives me the same message as above. Can someone help me please ?