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Wake Rider
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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:14 am Post subject: Granting sudo permissions to a user |
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| How do I set sudo to give my ordinary user full root access like it has in Ubuntu? I like being able to install as a regular user and I also need sudo for mounting drives. |
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desultory
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| /etc/sudoers: | # Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
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aronparsons
Tux's lil' helper
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:02 am Post subject: |
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Use something like the following to require a password on all commands except those that don't impose a major security risk for a desktop system (e.g. /bin/mount). If you just have 'NOPASSWD' for all root commands, you're not really providing any extra security.
| Code: | | username ALL = PASSWD: ALL, NOPASSWD: /bin/mount, /bin/umount |
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guttersnipe
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Also, you shouldn't edit /etc/sudoers by hand. Use the command "visudo"
$ visudo
Scroll down to
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# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
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...and change it like so:
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# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
username ALL=(ALL) ALL
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alvaroguimaraes
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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If you want no password:
| Code: | # User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL |
But this is really not recommended. |
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