-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/26/09 08:42, Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello, > > When I first installed squeeze on my system, and being oblivious as to > the presence of any sudoers file in general, I asked a friend to help me > with the setting up of the sudoers file. I have a sneaking suspicion, > however, that the configuration applied might be flawed, since whenever > I'm required to input my password by sudo (to download and install > software, for instance), the password required is my account password, > and not the sudo password. Here is my sudoers file: > > # Host alias specification > > # User alias specification > > # Cmnd alias specification > > # User privilege specification > root ALL=(ALL) ALL > jason ALL=(ALL) ALL > # Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password > # (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move > # it further down) > # %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL > > I suspect that something may be wrong at line > > jason ALL=(ALL) ALL > > Anybody can help me with this? > > Thanks, > Jason
I thought sudo was meant to use your password, not the root/sudo password? If you want to change that behaviour, use the following line at the start of the file: Defaults:rootpw Hope that works - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C++++ UL++++ P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D---- G e* h! !r y? - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkobpIQACgkQ1kZz3mRu0GpXZQCgs5yCWCaEPG638ebIs6yupD9i s14AoIGqT2Qumvrj/fMdG7iBuGohs5F3 =CHxQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
