Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:59:53 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> To: Desmond Lee <desmond.lee@shaw.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sudoer file Message-ID: <20030830165953.GA7424@webserver> In-Reply-To: <001001c36ecf$68eddad0$6501a8c0@croydon> References: <001001c36ecf$68eddad0$6501a8c0@croydon>
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:19:14AM -0700 or thereabouts, Desmond Lee wrote: > Hello > > I'm having problems setting up sudo. I want to let a user 'dlee' be able > to mount and umount the cdrom. All I add in the /user/local/etc/sudoers > file is the following: > > > dlee localhost = NOPASSWD: mount /cdrom, umount /cdrom > > But when I do a 'sudo -v' (logged in as dlee) it says that dlee can run > sudo under the machine. Does `hostname' report "localhost"? If not, change the "localhost" to whatever `hostname' reports. > > Right now the wheel group consists of root and dlee. If I uncomment and > put in the following line: > > %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL > > then the user dlee still cannot do any sudo commands even though the > user dlee can su as root? AFAIK, more specific sudo lines (dlee) override less specific (%wheel). > > Is there something that I'm doing wrong here? I've looked up the sudo > and sudoers man pages and did some searching online but can't really get > anywhere. Check your hostname. Or just use ALL. -- Josh > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks > > Desmond > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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