Hello all,

I'm a LinuxMint user, which by default lets the user with all privileges. I would like exclude any user from the sudoers file, and let only root with those privileges, like it happens in Debian. The problem is that I don't know how to do it properly.
I've already asked this in the LinuxMint forum, but had no answer. Could someone help me??

Below follows my sudoers file:

#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
# directly modifying this file.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

# See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:

#includedir /etc/sudoers.d


Thanks a lot!

You'd have to use visudo, for best results...there is a page on this as well...oh, you'd like this thread on sudo as well...
And, yes, Mint does that...but, on the up side, the installation is a breeze and it's a pleasant OS to use. Just got it on my tablet and I lover it...no tough yet (the word being YET ) but...we'll get there...

Thor

At first, you have to activate the root account with So that you can log in as root. Test that the login works before proceeding.
Now you can either comment out the rows starting with %admin and %sudo in the sudoers file (use visudo for that), simply with putting a # in front of the line, or you remove all users from the admin and sudo group.

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It worked!!!

Thank you very much!!!

Now when I type sudo su it says that the user doesn't belong to the sudoers file. That's exactly what I wanted!!

Cheers!