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decrease789 Apprentice


Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 194 Location: The United Krapdom
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:29 am Post subject: sudo problems |
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ok i've been looking for the answer to this for ages...
how the hell can i sudo on OS X? i can su fine. my /etc/sudoers file is in order... but everytime i use sudo... it prompts for the password. well... that shouldnt happen... so i type in the password and it says it's incorrect?
why can't i sudo?!?? it's driving me crazy. and the user is an admin... so no problem there either. |
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chetoo n00b


Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 57 Location: Valencia (Spain)
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: Re: sudo problems |
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decrease789 wrote: | ok i've been looking for the answer to this for ages...
how the hell can i sudo on OS X? i can su fine. my /etc/sudoers file is in order... but everytime i use sudo... it prompts for the password. well... that shouldnt happen... so i type in the password and it says it's incorrect?
why can't i sudo?!?? it's driving me crazy. and the user is an admin... so no problem there either. |
As far as I remember your user should belong to the group 'wheel'. Please check it since I'm not sure now. _________________ Dell Inspiron 8200 - Nvidia GeForce 440 Go 64M |
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decrease789 Apprentice


Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 194 Location: The United Krapdom
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:51 am Post subject: |
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doesnt matter anyway... ive clearly defined my user in the /etc/sudoers file in case it was group membership that was the problem which im pretty sure it's not |
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grobian Developer

Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 67
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:26 am Post subject: |
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sudo asks for *your* password, not for the root password. _________________ Gentoo on a different level |
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decrease789 Apprentice


Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 194 Location: The United Krapdom
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:03 am Post subject: |
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oh right. i thought i tried that. obviously i hadn't |
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