I was taught to use a two layer login and sudo. The first user can login to SSH and is not sudo. The second user is sudo and cannot log in. I was told long ago this was a way to protect the system. On 2014-06-10 02:16, Michael Havens wrote: > however, in my notes I and add a line like this: > >       %sudo ALL=(ALL)  NOPASSWD:  ALL > > and then add my user to the sudo group. > What does the percent sign mean? does it indicate the next string of > characters is the name of a group? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Michael Havens > wrote: > >> how embarrasing! I already wrote myself notes on how to do this..... >> sorry to waste the brain power with my taxing question. lol >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Michael Havens >> wrote: >> >> 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 >> 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 >> 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 >> >> # 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 >> 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 >> 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~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] >> >> -- >> James McPhee >> jmcphe@gmail.com >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss