From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 03:09:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA17958 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 03:09:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from vogon.muc.de (root@vogon.muc.de [193.174.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA17948 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 03:08:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [193.174.4.22] ([193.174.4.22]) by vogon.muc.de with SMTP id <93322-2>; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:57:40 +0100 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:32:53 +0100 To: hernanw@FSL.ORST.EDU From: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) Subject: Re: using sudo Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article , Wayne Hernandez writes: - -I have setup the sudoers file, but when it ask's for the password, it -won't take either my password or root's password. Is their something -else that I missed? Hello, you need to tell sudo to use the standard password routine. Just #define USE_GETPASS in config.h. ciao lutz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lutz Albers | What's good ? Luederitzstr. 14, 81929-Muenchen, Germany | Life's good - email:lutz@muc.de ph: +49-89-93940364 | But not fair at all http://www.muc.de/~lutz fax:+49-89-93940365 | (Lou Reed) Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.