I'd look this up in the man page, but the package doesn't seem to have 
one....

I'm trying to use sudo for some tasks that I start up, so that I don't have 
to do a full su to root in a shell window first and then execute the 
command that I want to run.  However, I can't seem to get the thing to let 
me do it.

I've edited /etc/sudoers to allow group wheel to execute all command, and I 
made sure that my "regular user" account is part of that group.  Then I 
type something really simple like "sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog".  It then 
prompts me for a password.  No matter what password I put in (even when I 
put in the root password), it tells me the password is wrong.

So, what the heck password does sudo want from me? :-)

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