visudo

[Michael Havens]

Why is the format so different? Meaning the examples I have to look at
are 'ALL=(ALL:ALL)
ALL' but the way the computer accepts it is without the parentheses and
withot the cast three characters.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Jon Ernster <jon.ernster at gmail.com> wrote:

> ALL just gives you the ability to run sudo on all binaries.  If you don't
> want to give your password every time you use sudo then you need to use the
> NOPASSWD option.
>
> ie:  exampleuser    ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just tried saving it as sudoers rather than as the .tmp file but still
>> it requires a password. Please tell me what I am doing wrong?
>> Here is the file <user is ***>
>>
>> # Cmnd alias specification
>>
>> # User privilege specification
>> root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>> ***  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>
>> # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
>> admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
>> ***  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>
>> # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
>> sudo    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>> ***  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>>
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:23 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> sudoers.tmp is the lock file visudo uses to make sure there aren't
>>> multiple edits going on at the same time.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to add my user to 'sudoers'. After I do I press cntrl-X and
>>>> it says the file it is going to save is 'sudoers.tmp' . So I save it like
>>>> that and my user still requires a password. should I not save it as the
>>>> .tmp file but rather as 'sudoers'. I don't remember it being like that last
>>>> time I did this!
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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