% is for groups
@ is for netgroups
yeah, pretty much


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <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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