giving accounts...

wendea · 03-08-2007, 01:45 PM

Hi,

i'm trying to give one of my regular accounts sudo access. I have gone into the visudo and added the user like this:

username ALL=(ALL) ALL

and yet I still do not have any sudo powers with this account. Can anyone help?

thanks

b0uncer · 03-08-2007, 01:47 PM

Add the user to the sudoers group, for example by editing /etc/group and writing the username to the correct line.

wendea · 03-08-2007, 01:48 PM

ok thanks, ill try that.

wendea · 03-08-2007, 01:53 PM

so i went into etc/group and I put my username in like this:

root:x:0:root,username

yet I still get a error when i try a sudo command:

-bash: service: command not found

pixellany · 03-08-2007, 02:04 PM

Are you sure sudo is on your machine? What distro are you using?

my machine (RHEL4) does not have a sudoers line in /etc/group--I think you in fact have to edit the /etc/sudoers file.

wendea · 03-08-2007, 02:25 PM

im running fc5, I have already edited the visudo file (/etc/sudoers).

anymore suggestions? this is being a huge pain for me, and i appreciate all your guys help.

wendea · 03-08-2007, 02:31 PM

alright, I have fixed my problem. I was trying to run the commands like root. I didnt know when you were just a super user that you had to type in the path name as well.

thanks for all your help.

cgjones · 03-08-2007, 02:33 PM

The root group wouldn't be the group used for sudo. Some distro's use the wheel group, but I'm not sure which group Fedora uses. I would check the man page for sudo.