Erik Price writes: > > On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 09:21 AM, Dan O'Brien wrote: > > > I've gone and broken my sudoers file, and can't sudo now. I > > opened it in BBedit to add the line: <my username> ALL = > > NOPASSWD: ALL but it now comes up with the message "sudo: > > /etc/sudoers is mode 0640, should be 0440" Any idea what to > > do? > > Log in as root and chmod it back. > > bash$ su > Password: > bash# chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers > bash# exit > bash$ > > If you haven't activated your root account, you can do it via > NetInfo or a handful of other ways, see MacOSXHints.com for > more info
The default seems to be '%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL'. Any particular reason that you're putting in a specific entry for your uid, and not just having your uid belong to the admin group? -- Viktor Haag : Software & Information Design : Research In Motion +--+ "We just love the way salesmen talk. Especially frightened ones." _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users