Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 17/05/2014 01:35, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On 16 May 2014 07:26, Charl Wentzel wrote: >> I wanted do to debugging in Eclipse which required me to let Eclipse run >> gdb with sudo. However, for this to work, sudo must not ask for a >> password. So I've added the following entry in /etc/s

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 16 May 2014 07:26, Charl Wentzel wrote: > Hi Guys > > I recently struggled with an issue for quite a few days because of the > way the /etc/sudoers file is laid out. I would like to make a > suggestion to change it that would hopefully save others the same hassle. > > I wanted to debugging in

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Tamas Papp
On 05/16/2014 04:07 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:23:09 +0200, Tamas Papp wrote: >> If you edit sudoers via visudo there is a syntax checking. >> If you do something wrong in /etc/sudoers.d/a, there is no syntax >> checking and the your user gets locked out: > So edit /etc/su

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Tamas Papp
On 05/16/2014 04:02 PM, Luis Mondesi wrote: >> On May 16, 2014, at 9:54, Tamas Papp wrote: >> >> >> On 05/16/2014 03:50 PM, Luis Mondesi wrote: On May 16, 2014, at 4:23, Tamas Papp wrote: > On 05/16/2014 09:19 AM, Andrea Corbellini wrote: > Actually, you are supposed to cr

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:23:09 +0200, Tamas Papp wrote: > If you edit sudoers via visudo there is a syntax checking. > If you do something wrong in /etc/sudoers.d/a, there is no syntax > checking and the your user gets locked out: So edit /etc/sudoers.d/a with visudo: visudo -f /etc/sudoers

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Luis Mondesi
> On May 16, 2014, at 9:54, Tamas Papp wrote: > > > On 05/16/2014 03:50 PM, Luis Mondesi wrote: >>> On May 16, 2014, at 4:23, Tamas Papp wrote: >>> >>> On 05/16/2014 09:19 AM, Andrea Corbellini wrote: Actually, you are supposed to create a new file in /etc/sudoers.d for custom

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Tamas Papp
On 05/16/2014 03:50 PM, Luis Mondesi wrote: >> On May 16, 2014, at 4:23, Tamas Papp wrote: >> >> >>> On 05/16/2014 09:19 AM, Andrea Corbellini wrote: >>> Actually, you are supposed to create a new file in /etc/sudoers.d for >>> custom rules. You shouldn't edit /etc/sudoers directly; this will >>>

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Luis Mondesi
> On May 16, 2014, at 4:23, Tamas Papp wrote: > > >> On 05/16/2014 09:19 AM, Andrea Corbellini wrote: >> Actually, you are supposed to create a new file in /etc/sudoers.d for >> custom rules. You shouldn't edit /etc/sudoers directly; this will >> ensure that package upgrades can happen without

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Tamas Papp
On 05/16/2014 09:19 AM, Andrea Corbellini wrote: > Actually, you are supposed to create a new file in /etc/sudoers.d for > custom rules. You shouldn't edit /etc/sudoers directly; this will > ensure that package upgrades can happen without asking you any > question about the changes you made to tha

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Andrea Corbellini
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Charl Wentzel wrote: Hi Guys I recently struggled with an issue for quite a few days because of the way the /etc/sudoers file is laid out. I would like to make a suggestion to change it that would hopefully save others the same hassle. I wanted to debugging