Am 2019-05-16 19:52, schrieb Hans Malissa:
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.
Fine that problem is solved.
And thanks for reporting how you fixed it. Hardly something is more
annoying than unanswered questions.
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Thomas
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