I think I have a tiny problem. I ran visudo to remove my user from the sudoers file and it asked for the password. I removed the user and then:<div><div>$ sudo visudo</div><div>[sudo] password for bmike1: </div><div>bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ sudo useradd -G sudo bmike1</div>
<div>useradd: user 'bmike1' already exists</div><div><br></div><div>Oh, I was using the wrong file. I need usermod -a -G sudo bmike1</div><div><br></div><div>Now we just wait a bit until I can test the handy work to see if it works.</div>
<div><an hour later></div><div>Nope..... still asks for a password.</div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
thanks<div><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div><div><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Kevin Fries <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@fries-biro.com" target="_blank">kevin@fries-biro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Remove the entry for you completely from sudoers. Notice in the file you posted the %sudo line? That mean that anybody who belongs to the group sudo has full sudo access. This means you do not need to add individual users to the sudoers file, you just need to add or remove users from that group instead. So remove any individual users from sudoers, it's not needed. </p>
<span><font color="#888888">
<p>Kevin</p></font></span><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 4, 2013 5:49 PM, "Michael Havens" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
regardless, how do I fix sudoers?<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Kevin Fries <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@fries-biro.com" target="_blank">kevin@fries-biro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Mike, </p>
<p>Leave your sudoers file alone and add your user to the sudo group instead. Much more flexible. </p><span><font color="#888888">
<p>Kevin</p></font></span><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 4, 2013 4:28 PM, "Michael Havens" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I wanted to add my user to the sudoers file so I typed in 'visudo. and put my userid where I figure it should go. Now whenever I type 'sudo <?>' the output of the shell is: </span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div>bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ sudo mkdir /backups</div><div>sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 14</div>
<div>sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting</div><div>sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>so I think I'll go in and put it the way it was:</div><div><br></div><div>
bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ sudo visudo</div><div>sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 14</div><div>sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting</div><div>sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin</div><div><br>
</div><div>Here is the sudoers file:</div><div><br></div><div><div>#</div><div># This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.</div><div>#</div><div># Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of</div>
<div># directly modifying this file.</div><div>#</div><div># See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.</div><div>#</div><div>Defaults env_reset</div><div>Defaults mail_badpass</div><div>Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"</div>
<div><br></div><div># Host alias specification</div><div>bmike1</div><div><br></div><div># User alias specification</div><div><br></div><div># Cmnd alias specification</div><div><br></div><div># User privilege specification</div>
<div>root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL</div><div><br></div><div># Members of the admin group may gain root privileges</div><div>%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL</div><div><br></div><div># Allow members of group sudo to execute any command</div>
<div>%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL</div><div><br></div><div># See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:</div><div><br></div><div>#includedir /etc/sudoers.d</div></div><div><br></div><div>HEY! Look at that. I put my user in the wrong space. I meant to put it under '# User alias specification' but now I see that is wrong; I needed to put it under '# User privilege specification'.</div>
<div>Also, what about the "ALL's". What do they mean?</div><div>Can I fix this with VI? I'm not just doing it because I don't want to mess this up so bad I need to reinstall</div></div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div></blockquote>
<div>Okay Matt (or anyone else who wants to answer this), could I do this:</div><div>first I make a directory in the usb called 'bmike1-backup'</div><div><br></div><div>#!/bin/bash </div><div>sudo mkdir /backups <-create backups dir</div>
<div>sudo mount /sdc1/backup-bmike1 /backups <- tell computer to see a directory in the usb drive as /backups</div><div>rsync -av /home/bmike1</div><div>sudo umount backups; sudo rmdir backups <-make everything like it was</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danceswithcrows@usa.net" target="_blank">danceswithcrows@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">1. Plug this disk in. Usually, removable disks have 1 partition of type FAT32<br>
or NTFS covering their whole space. (Check that this is the case, if not,<br>
something weird may be going on.)<br>
<br>
2. Make a filesystem with a label on this partition. "mke2fs -j -L MY_BACKUPS<br>
/dev/sdN1" . Find what N is by looking at the output of dmesg | tail.<br>
<br>
3. Make an entry for the partition you made in your /etc/fstab :<br>
<br>
LABEL=MY_BACKUPS /mnt/backup ext3 noauto,users,noatime 0 0<br>
<br>
4. As root, mkdir /mnt/backup if it doesn't exist, then mount this partition<br>
on /mnt/backup , mkdir /mnt/backup/USER , and chown USER /mnt/backup/USER .<br>
<br>
5. Make a shell script sort of like this:<br>
<br>
#!/bin/bash<br>
if [[ $1 == '--help' || $1 == '-h' ]] ; then<br>
echo "backs up ~USER to backup drive."<br>
exit;<br>
fi<br>
<br>
if mount | grep /mnt/backup > /dev/null ; then<br>
rsync -av --delete-after /home/USER/ /mnt/backup/USER<br>
else<br>
echo "backup disk not mounted. Trying to mount it."<br>
mount /mnt/backup<br>
if mount | grep /mnt/backup > /dev/null ; then<br>
echo "Is the disk plugged in? Can't mount, bailing."<br>
exit 1<br>
fi<br>
rsync -av --delete-after /home/USER/ /mnt/backup/USER<br>
umount /mnt/backup<br>
fi<br>
<br>
6. Any time you want to make a backup, plug your disk in, and run that shell<br>
script. The initial rsync will take some time. Subsequent rsyncs will take a<br>
couple of minutes.<br>
<br>
This is AFAICT a reasonably good way to do things, because it doesn't take a<br>
lot of time to keep your backup up to date, and restoring is as simple as<br>
mounting the backup disk and copying things over. Since there is only 1<br>
backup, though, you could delete something, make a backup, then realize you<br>
needed that thing. I have 2 backup disks and rotate them every few days to<br>
make that less likely.<br>
<br>
You could even get fancy and use dm-crypt to back up your stuff to an<br>
encrypted disk, which is useful in some situations like when you want to leave<br>
the disk somewhere that's not under your direct control like a friend's house.<br>
Using dm-crypt makes things a bit more complex, but I can write another<br>
message about that.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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