Shell confusion

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Mar 13 23:49:34 UTC 2009


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




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