Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-17 Thread Paul Klapperich
you get it (or did you compile it manually?)? James, thanks for the suggestion! Thanks, Nick. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Klapperich Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:44 PM Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: Visudo

Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thursday 16 August 2007 20:44:16 Paul Klapperich wrote: On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On this one visudo is not on the box but the real solution is don't chmod the file. VI it as root, then instead of doing wq to quit (write quit) do wq! (w q then

RE: Visudo Help

2007-08-16 Thread Dr. Nicholas Shaw
Thanks, Paul. By default sudoers is not writable so in order to make changes. Nick. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Klapperich Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:38 PM Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: Visudo Help I'm not sure

Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-16 Thread Paul Klapperich
. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Klapperich Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:38 PM Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: Visudo Help I'm not sure if it has visudo or not and my unit isn't handy, but here's a safety net: Install OpenSSH or Dropbear

Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 15:12:27 Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: Ok, after my major screw-up last week (I directly modified the sudoers file but failed to change the permissions back to 0444), I flashed to the newest OS upgrade and re-installed all of my applications. Now I need to modify the

Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-16 Thread Paul Klapperich
On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On this one visudo is not on the box but the real solution is don't chmod the file. VI it as root, then instead of doing wq to quit (write quit) do wq! (w q then exclamation point or more commonly known as bang) this will override

RE: Visudo Help

2007-08-16 Thread Dr. Nicholas Shaw
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Klapperich Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:44 PM Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: Visudo Help On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On this one visudo is not on the box but the real solution is don't chmod

Re: Visudo Help

2007-08-15 Thread Paul Klapperich
I'm not sure if it has visudo or not and my unit isn't handy, but here's a safety net: Install OpenSSH or Dropbear, then do sudo gainroot passwd enter a root password Now if you mess up your /etc/sudoers, you can always open Putty/Xterm on your desktop and ssh into the root account using the