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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <jon.ernster@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@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@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@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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