/etc/group

...

floppy:x:25:

tape:x:26:

sudo:x:27:bmike1 <-relevant line

audio:x:29:pulse

dip:x:30:bmike1

/etc/sudoers

...

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges

%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command

%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL                                         <-relevant line

# See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:

Isn't the line that is commented out supposed to be that way,,,, wait a second! If I remember correctly the '%' is a comment symbol too. (if I rember right I was messing with a file that used % signs to comment out lines. I'll try removing it and see what happens.

,....

Well I uncomented it and now the error is:

$ sudo visudo

bmike1 is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported. (I'm terrified! lol)

So to me this is saying to put the line:

bmike1   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

under the line:

sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

so it looks like:

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command

sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL                                         <-relevant line

bmike1   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL                                         <-relevant line

but you were saying I should just need to add my userid to the group sudo (which, as shown, is already done). So I am at a loss! What should I do.

Also, would someone explain the difference between usin a pound symbol and a percent when commenting lines.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, James Dugger <james.dugger@gmail.com> wrote:

Mike,

Don't know if it was explained above but the % symbol infront of the names in the sudo file is the reference for a group listed in the /etc/group file.  So the line 

%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWORD : ALL 

When uncommented (remove the # in front if it exists) tells Linux to allow anyone in the sudo group access to ALL commands as root without a password.  All you have to do is make sure this line is uncommented using visudo.

Then you would edit the /etc/group and add your username to the 'sudo' group line after the ':' on that line.  If there is already another user listed simply add a comma to the end of the previous name then a space and add your username at the end (without a comma after your username).

Caution:  This gives any and all users that are part of the sudo group complete root privileges without password requirements.  If this is an issue you can depending on your distro instead use the %wheel group listing in the sudo file. If the %wheel stanza exists (same as the %sudo ... above) and there is a group named wheel in /etc/group you could use this in lieu of %sudo.

Hope this helps. 

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 04:48:42PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> regardless, how do I fix sudoers?

By deleting the sudoers file and renaming the sudoers.bak file to
sudoers. Uh, you *did* make a backup of the sudoers file...didn't you?

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