Shell confusion

[Aldo Foot]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> psmith wrote:
>>> dave is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
>>> So, I found the sudoers file, but not at all clear about exaclty what
>>> I need to put in there.
>>> Once again, I have to learn one thing in order to do another.
>>> Any help here?
>>> Thanks
>>> Dave
>>>
>> you need to uncomment the
>> #%wheel    ALL=(ALL)    ALL
>> to
>> %wheel    ALL=(ALL)    ALL
>> in the sudoers file, then add your user account to the wheel group using
>> system-config-users
>
> That's simplest, but you can also grant it directly to an account,
> and/or grant different privileges to different accounts.
>
> Matt Flaschen

Yes, it can get very granular indeed. I prefer that approach better.

~af