<div dir="ltr">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?<div>Here is the file <user is ***></div><div><br></div><div><div># Cmnd alias specification</div>
<div><br></div><div># User privilege specification</div><div>root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL</div><div>*** 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>*** ALL=(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>*** ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:23 PM, James Mcphee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmcphe@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 dir="ltr">sudoers.tmp is the lock file visudo uses to make sure there aren't multiple edits going on at the same time.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div dir="ltr">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!<br clear="all">
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