sudo doesn't work, I'm not in sudoers file, but I am.

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Jan 13 04:55:14 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 23:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> In fact, my password, while longer than most, is about half the length
> of roots, which is so long its not usable with ssh or samba.  For that
> reason, I wouldn't mind being forced to use roots password to sudo. 

That's what "su" is for, surely?  "su" to become root, "sudo" to pretend
to be root.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i686 i386

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