David Guntner wrote:

>I'd look this up in the man page, but the package doesn't seem to have 
>one....
>
>I'm trying to use sudo for some tasks that I start up, so that I don't have 
>to do a full su to root in a shell window first and then execute the 
>command that I want to run.  However, I can't seem to get the thing to let 
>me do it.
>
>I've edited /etc/sudoers to allow group wheel to execute all command, and I 
>made sure that my "regular user" account is part of that group.  Then I 
>type something really simple like "sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog".  It then 
>prompts me for a password.  No matter what password I put in (even when I 
>put in the root password), it tells me the password is wrong.
>
>So, what the heck password does sudo want from me? :-)
>
>                       --Dave
>
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It wants the password for your user...

But on to another question, what did you edit sudoers with?  I hope it 
was visudo, because nothing else is likely to produce proper results.

Civileme




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