[SOLVED] sudoer file

Bestinbest · 2022-11-12 14:53:26

Hello,

I recently had to reinstall arch on my computer. When I tried to install yay with makepkg, the system refused to make it :

 user is not in the sudoer list

So I made some research, and I read many times that I needed to manually add my user to the sudoer list, which I reluctantly did (right after the same line with root, in /etc/sudoer) :

 user ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

I then tried and this time the system refused to do it because user had too much privilege. I know I am missing something, all went well on my previous installation but it's been a while, and those articles are not very helpful to me ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_ … management , https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … and_groups )

So I want to grant a user admin privilege, but not too much. Can you help me ?

Thanks for reading.

Last edited by Bestinbest (2022-11-12 16:44:58)

Awebb · 2022-11-12 14:59:03

You add yourself to, say, the wheel group and then uncomment the %wheel line in the sudoers.

You can call that group however you want, wheel is just the traditional BSD superuser group, you can call that group however you want.

WorMzy · 2022-11-12 15:05:04

I then tried and this time the system refused to do it because user had too much privilege.

Do not run makepkg as root (i.e. with sudo). If it needs root user access at any point, it will prompt you as required.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepkg#Usage

Mod note: Moving to NC.

Bestinbest · 2022-11-12 15:38:30

Thanks for your replies.
I added my user to the wheel group while in root, and it is. But once I get out of the root mode, the user is no longer in it. I don't understand what I did wrong :

[root@Yack opt]# usermod -aG wheel yack
[root@Yack opt]# groups yack
wheel yack
[root@Yack opt]# exit
exit
[yack@Yack opt]$ groups
yack

WorMzy · 2022-11-12 15:57:14

See the note in the first purple box: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_ … management

astralc · 2022-11-12 15:57:39

groups are applied when the user login (unless you use newgrp command, for shell with the group), so relogin (fully, including DE/WM, not just opening terminal)

Bestinbest · 2022-11-12 16:44:36

Thanks a lot to everyone, it's solved !

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