sudoers mistake

[Michael Havens]

Thanks James. Now it is acting like I want it to. But what about the thing
where people were telling me to add the user to the group sudo? Why do you
think that wasn't working?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:39 PM, James Dugger <james.dugger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike, the comment symbol in the sudo file is a '#' not a '%'.  The % in
> the sudo file flags the parser to read the attached trailing letters as a
> group.
>
> Leave the line in /etc/group as you have it.
>
> comment out the line:
>
>       sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>
> Like this:
>
>       # sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL)  ALL
>
> and add a new line below it like this:
>
>       %sudo ALL=(ALL)  NOPASSWD:  ALL
>
> and also remove the following line completely from visudo
>
>       bmike1 ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> /etc/group
>> ...
>> floppy:x:25:
>> tape:x:26:
>> sudo:x:27:bmike1 <-relevant line
>> audio:x:29:pulse
>> dip:x:30:bmike1
>> /etc/sudoers
>> ...
>> # 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
>> <-relevant line
>>
>> # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
>>
>> Isn't the line that is commented out supposed to be that way,,,, wait a
>> second! If I remember correctly the '%' is a comment symbol too. (if I
>> rember right I was messing with a file that used % signs to comment out
>> lines. I'll try removing it and see what happens.
>> ,....
>> Well I uncomented it and now the error is:
>>
>> $ sudo visudo
>> bmike1 is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported. (I'm
>> terrified! lol)
>>
>> So to me this is saying to put the line:
>>
>> bmike1   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>
>> under the line:
>>
>> sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>
>> so it looks like:
>>
>> # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
>> sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>> <-relevant line
>> bmike1   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>> <-relevant line
>>
>>
>> but you were saying I should just need to add my userid to the group sudo
>> (which, as shown, is already done). So I am at a loss! What should I do.
>>
>> Also, would someone explain the difference between usin a pound symbol
>> and a percent when commenting lines.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, James Dugger <james.dugger at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Mike,
>>>
>>> Don't know if it was explained above but the % symbol infront of the
>>> names in the sudo file is the reference for a group listed in the
>>> /etc/group file.  So the line
>>>
>>> %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWORD : ALL
>>>
>>> When uncommented (remove the # in front if it exists) tells Linux to
>>> allow anyone in the sudo group access to ALL commands as root without a
>>> password.  All you have to do is make sure this line is uncommented using
>>> visudo.
>>>
>>> Then you would edit the /etc/group and add your username to the 'sudo'
>>> group line after the ':' on that line.  If there is already another user
>>> listed simply add a comma to the end of the previous name then a space and
>>> add your username at the end (without a comma after your username).
>>>
>>> Caution:  This gives any and all users that are part of the sudo group
>>> complete root privileges without password requirements.  If this is an
>>> issue you can depending on your distro instead use the %wheel group listing
>>> in the sudo file. If the %wheel stanza exists (same as the %sudo ...
>>> above) and there is a group named wheel in /etc/group you could use this in
>>> lieu of %sudo.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 04:48:42PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>> > regardless, how do I fix sudoers?
>>>>
>>>> By deleting the sudoers file and renaming the sudoers.bak file to
>>>> sudoers. Uh, you *did* make a backup of the sudoers file...didn't you?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bob Holtzman
>>>> If you think you're getting free lunch,
>>>> check the price of the beer.
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>>>
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>>>
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