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Shagbag

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Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

How do I create a 'sudo' type of environment?

I came to Arch from Ubuntu.  One of the featues of Ubuntu that I liked (a personal preference here - nothing more, nothing less) was the absence of a root account (disabled in Ubuntu by default) in combination with the 'sudo' command.

At the moment I've been using a defacto method by enclosing my commands in single quotes and pre-fixing them with 'su -c'.

I'm now getting tired of this and would like to implement a proper sudo environment.  Can I do this in Arch, how easy is it to do and what are the commands I need to execute to achieve the joint aims (sudo + root account disabled)?

Any help you can give is greatly appreciated.

phrakture

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Re: How do I create a 'sudo' type of environment?

As with any piece of software - install it an configure it.
The 'proper' way is:

pacman -S sudo
su -c visudo (uses vi to edit the sudoers file)
sudo <blah>

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Shagbag

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Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

Re: How do I create a 'sudo' type of environment?

Thanks phrakture.  I didn't know 'sudo' was a package.  I do now.  Another one for the n00bs' Almanac!  Cheers