On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Alexander Hall <alexan...@beard.se> wrote: > On 09/15/13 00:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and >> then `adduser jwalton sudo`. > > What did you expect from that command? And why? I'd expect the user jwalton to be added to the sudo group. Its seems like a reasonable expectation to me.
>> Now I'm stuck a loop of: >> >> Enter username[]: >> >> When I try and add my name, I'm told its there. When I try to <RETURN> >> (no name), I looped back to the prompt. I have to break out with a ^C. >> >> After the ^C break and exit from root, I'm told I'm not in sudoers again. >> >> How does one use adduser in OpenBSD? > > I'd say you use it to add users, but since your user name already existed > you could not. It makes sense to me. When I cat /etc/sudoers, its not there. > The question is what you really wanted to do. I wanted to add myself to the sudo group. I'm not a BSD admin - I'm just a dumb user. So I'm probably doing something wrong. I just haven't figured out what it is. Jeff
