Re: sudo access - proper method?

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Matty Sarro <msarro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you for the pointer guys. Just curious; I did add the user to
the wheel group as well.
I expected the users who weren't added to wheel to not be able to su
to root. Is this a departure from BSD's implementation of the wheel
group?

-Matty

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM,  <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rohit khaladkar wrote:
I always edit the sudoers file.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Matty Sarro <msarro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey everyone,
Just curious - when creating a new user, what is the proper method of
giving them sudo access? Is it by appending them to the wheel group,
or is it modifying the /etc/sudoers file? I appreciate any help.

Rhoit, don't top post.

Matty: ABSOLUTELY, USE visudo - do *not* just edit it. visudo does syntax
checking, and so when you get out, you can be reasonably sure you won't be
locked out....

      mark

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Also, sorry for the top post, I didn't realize gmail did that by default. Oops.
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