<div dir="ltr">% is for groups<div>@ is for netgroups</div><div>yeah, pretty much</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:16 AM, 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 dir="ltr">however, in my notes I and add a line like this:<div><br></div><div> %sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL</div>
<div><br></div><div>and then add my user to the sudo group.<br>What does the percent sign mean? does it indicate the next string of characters is the name of a group?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:41 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 dir="ltr">how embarrasing! I already wrote myself notes on how to do this..... sorry to waste the brain power with my taxing question. lol</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:31 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 dir="ltr">Why is the format so different? Meaning the examples I have to look at are '<font face="arial, sans-serif">ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL' but the way the computer accepts it is without the parentheses and withot the cast three characters. </font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Jon Ernster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon.ernster@gmail.com" target="_blank">jon.ernster@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">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.<div><br></div><div>ie: exampleuser ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL</div>
</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:42 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 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>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><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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