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You need to edit your sudoers file in the appropriate way. You can find one explanation here. A quick search on the web will find you plenty of other explanations. You'll need to use visudo to do the job.
jdk
Just typing visudo as root takes you directly to /etc/sudoers at 1 time in debian it was almost like using vim but now when I use it the interface is almost the sam as nano.
Don't edit the file using visudo... You need to learn about vi and I remember my first passes at vi... I broke the script I tried to edit :P
use one of these commands (as root):
Code:
mcedit /etc/sudoers
pico /etc/sudoers
Do not do this. visudo will make sure the file is locked correctly and check for syntax errors. If you don't like the default editor used by visudo, then set your EDITOR environment variable to an editor that you do like.
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