user not in sudoers

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 13 23:40:26 UTC 2011


On 04/13/2011 04:30 PM, scott wrote:
...
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought the correct way to edit 
> /etc/sudoers was with "visudo".
>  From the man page of "sudo" :
>> The_sudoers_  file should*always*  be edited by the*visudo*  command which
>>         locks the file and does grammatical checking. It is imperative that
>>         _sudoers_  be free of syntax errors since*sudo*  will not run with a
>>         syntactically incorrect_sudoers_  file.
>>

It is. Added info:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers






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