sudoers mistake

[James Dugger]

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 at 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?
>
> --
> Bob Holtzman
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