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fluxme

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Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 36

How do I get sudo to work?

Hello,
new Arch-user here.

Since I personally think that logging in to root, execute a command and then return to my own account is quite a hassle, I'm fond of using the sudo-program.
Unfortunately it does not work.

For instance, if I wright "sudo packman -S package_name", I get the usual warnings and comments, type in my password and then nothing happens! The prompt is returned to me, but the command is not executed.
So I figured maybe I had to do some configuring?
su root works at least, but I really want sudo to work too.

I'd really appreciate some help about this one

Flux

Jessehk

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From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2007-01-16

Posts: 152

Re: How do I get sudo to work?

Edit /etc/sudoers appropriately as root to add either your specific user or the entire wheel group.
The file is well commented -- it should be fairly straightforward to do.

Last edited by Jessehk (2007-12-11 04:17:50)

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: How do I get sudo to work?

Here's a link to the wiki page on it:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo

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fluxme

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Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 36

Re: How do I get sudo to work?

Thanks, finally got it to work

Bison

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From: Jacksonville, FL

Registered: 2006-04-12

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Re: How do I get sudo to work?

I think you generally want to use visudo instead of editing the file directly

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Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: How do I get sudo to work?

I think you generally want to use visudo instead of editing the file directly

Yes! visudo is the preferred method. Otherwise, there is a risk of corrupting the file if extra spaces are added to the end, or so I am told.

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TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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Re: How do I get sudo to work?

That's not compulsory to use vi-like editor, just it can be use any editor and to be sure that there aren't errors, checked by visudo -c.

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: How do I get sudo to work?

That's not compulsory to use vi-like editor, just it can be use any editor and to be sure that there aren't errors, checked by visudo -c.

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HUH???

But, then I did a...

man visudo

and found this...

visudo accepts the following command line options:

       -c  Enable check-only mode.  The existing sudoers file will be checked
           for syntax and a message will be printed to the standard output
           detailing the status of sudoers.  If the syntax check completes
           successfully, visudo will exit with a value of 0.  If a syntax
           error is encountered, visudo will exit with a value of 1.

Now I get it, thanks for the broken english tip.

fluxme

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Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 36

Re: How do I get sudo to work?

Thanks for the tips. I followed the wiki and therefore used the visudo-command, but I have to say I prefer nano over vi, at least at the moment.

osc~

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Registered: 2007-07-06

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Re: How do I get sudo to work?

this post helped me alot
i was about to write one similar.
i have one question though?
what is the advantage of sudo over adding a user in all the /etc/group file.
maybe this should be in another post
thanks