On May 15, 2019 at 3:27 PM, Hans Malissa <[email protected]> wrote:
I have installed Sudo-1.8.27 on BLFS 8.4-systemd following the instructions in
http://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable-systemd/postlfs/sudo.html, and
I've followed the instructions as given in the section 'Configuring Sudo'.
Sudo itself is working, so I'm assuming that the installation went fine.
However, I'm very much confused with the configuration. The configuration as
described does not exactly do what I want. I've looked at the sudoers
documentation, but the syntax and the various options are too confusing for me.
Basically, I want the same behavior that I'm used to from other distributions:
when the unprivileged user issues
$ sudo <command>
he is prompted for the root password, and then <command> is executed as root
user. Now, with the configuration given on BLFS 8.4-systemd, I need to add my user to
the 'wheel' group, but then sudo asks me for the password of that user, not for the
root password. This is not quite what I had in mind.
I guess it must be simple to achieve this, but I can't figure out the right
configuration. What do I need to do to get sudo to simply ask for the root
password, and then run the command as root, irrespective of the 'wheel' group?
I've added the line 'Defaults rootpw' to /etc/sudoers.d/sudo; now it's asking
for the root password. I believe that the user still needs to be in the wheel
group, but I guess that's okay.
Hans
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