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01-14-2003, 10:32 PM
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Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Batu Puteh, Malaysia
Distribution: (Mandrake 8.2) (Redhat 7.2,8.0,9.0) (Slackware 9.0,9.1)
Posts: 154
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sudoers........ help
I want to have my user name "guest" able to do a "sudo xcdroast". I'm tyring to edit the sudoers.tmp using visudo but it dosen't work. What do I do anyting wrong here. Here is my sudoers.tmp
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
guest ALL=/usr/bin/xcdroast ALL
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01-15-2003, 12:42 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2002
Location: Philippines
Distribution: Slackware, RHEL&variants, AIX, SuSE
Posts: 1,127
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sudoers.tmp? it should be /etc/sudoers . or just run this as root:
visudo
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01-15-2003, 12:47 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: Gentoo x86_64; FreeBSD; OS X
Posts: 3,764
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If you just want to allow other users to use xcdroast, you can enable it after running it the first time as root...
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01-15-2003, 12:53 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Batu Puteh, Malaysia
Distribution: (Mandrake 8.2) (Redhat 7.2,8.0,9.0) (Slackware 9.0,9.1)
Posts: 154
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already did that but it still ask for the root password
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01-15-2003, 12:54 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: Gentoo x86_64; FreeBSD; OS X
Posts: 3,764
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Then you didn't do it properly 
Start as root, click setup, click on users tab, then adjust permissions as you see fit, then be sure to save...
Last edited by bulliver; 01-15-2003 at 12:56 AM.
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