Yeah, you're right. I apologize. On 5/28/05, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 28 May 2005 10:47, Mark Shields wrote: > > Obviously, if you've never used sudo you'll have to emerge the package > > app-admin/sudo. Then, configure /etc/sudoers with the visudo command. > > Find #%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL and uncomment it. Then, add the > > user you want to be able to use sudo to the wheel group (usermod -g > > <name>). And that's it. > > > The user should now be able to use sudo, > > provide they enter the root password when using it. > This part is not right I believe, the good thing of sude is that you scalate > privileges by using your own password, not root's password, I don't even know > root's passwords of the server. > > > If you don't want > > to have the use a password to use sudo (highly recommended you do), > > uncomment # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL instead. > > BTW, I think you missunderstood the question, I have sudo isntalled, I know > how it works and I am using it to do anything that requires root on my server > (after logging in as pupeno). My question is, how do I run a command like > this: > rsync --verbose --checksum --archive --partial --progress --rsh="ssh" > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/ ./var/ > having root-privileges on the server. > -- > Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (http://pupeno.com) > Reading ? Science Fiction ? http://sfreaders.com.ar > > >
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