On Fri, 26 May 2006, LJ Mace wrote: > Mark, > Thank you for the quick reply. I tried it again with the operators > password and I got > "sorry try again" and when I entered the root password it took off. What am > I goofing up??
You probably have the following in your sudoers: Defaults targetpw # ask for the password of the target user i.e. root This is the default for a SLES install. Also default is the next line: %users ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING! Only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'! And that's why targetpw is set. If you change targetpw, make sure to not let all of your users sudo as root with their password as well by commenting out the '%users' line. Bill Carlson -- Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Anything is possible, HCIS | given time and money. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Opinions are mine, not my employer's. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
