Michael Miller wrote: > I advise you to read the man pages for your distribution. You there > may be a sudoers group setup that you may need to be in. > > -Miller
I have found sudo to be essential, but a PITA. (See first defn) http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=PITA&Find=Find&String=exact The main problem I have with sudo is it's error checking. Basically there is only one error message: syntax error. Missing punctuation? Syntax error. Failed to define a symbol? Syntax error. I've spent hours finding an error which would have been trivial with a better error report. Granted, writing good error messages is not trivial. But the author of sudo didn't even try. Another complication is that if your sudo is configured to give passwordless validation for 5 minutes after you have validated once, it becomes hard to know if you have your configuration working correctly. In any case, here is a copy of my sudoers file. # ========= Runas alias specification ========= Runas_Alias AS_ROOT=root # ========= Cmnd alias specification ========= Cmnd_Alias UNRESTRICTEDCOMMAND=\ /usr/local/sbin/networklog,\ /usr/bin/apm --suspend,\ /usr/bin/updatedb # ========= Defaults ========= Defaults !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn # ========= User privilege specification ========= root ALL=(ALL) ALL # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL ALL ALL=(AS_ROOT) NOPASSWD: UNRESTRICTEDCOMMAND This is not exactly what you asked for, but it should be close. I have given unrestricted access to a few commands. You may want to restrict such access to only yourself. And your current line martin ALL = (ALL) ALL is fine and would probably be used in place of my line %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL which I inherited from my Ubuntu install. -- Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre. --- Frank Zappa _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
