Re: sudo sorrows

From: Aaron Matteson (fedora_at_cryptosystem.us)
Date: 03/02/04

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    Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:14:52 -0800
    
    

    Aaron became daring and sent these 0.8K bytes,
    > Thanks
    > I recently read so much about su that the su- flew by me.
    > As you said viola there is visudo.
    > Thanks
    > Aaron
    > On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 01:06, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
    > > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:01, Aaron wrote:
    > > > Hi all,
    > > >
    > > > I am returning to the list after beta testing Xandros,
    > > >
    > > > I am trying to setup sudo on Fedora core 1, but I don't find the visudo
    > > > command anywhere, although there is a man page for it.
    > > >
    > > > Am I missing something?
    > > >
    > > > I need to set sudo up but am stymied.
    > >
    > > `rpm -ql sudo | grep vi` shows that it is in /usr/sbin/visudo. You have
    > > to run this as root, and the best way to do that is to use `su -`
    > > instead of plain `su`. That way /usr/sbin/ and /sbin will be in your
    > > path.

    hmm, su - flew my coupe too. :)

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