civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> David Guntner wrote:
> >
> >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? :-)
>
> It wants the password for your user...
The password for WHAT user? If I do "sudo {some command}," doesn't it try
to run {some command} as root? I thought that was kind-of the idea? :-)
I've tried putting in the root password, but it doesn't take that, although
I can su to root all day with that same password.
> But on to another question, what did you edit sudoers with? I hope it
> was visudo, because nothing else is likely to produce proper results.
Yes. I looked at sudoers first, and noticed the comment at the top of the
file saying that it needed to be edited with visudo. So I used that
program to edit the file.
--Dave
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