Re: problem with sudo

2022-11-19 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I'm embarrassed. O well,, at least i have it right now :-( On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 8:52 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > sorry, i don't understand the question. the goal is for a normal user to > be able > O bother. I see what I'm doing. I must say 'sudo ...' before the command. > > Sorry for th

Re: problem with sudo

2022-11-19 Thread Geoffrey Leach
sorry, i don't understand the question. the goal is for a normal user to be able O bother. I see what I'm doing. I must say 'sudo ...' before the command. Sorry for the confusion. On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 8:45 PM Slade Watkins via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov

Re: problem with sudo

2022-11-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/19/22 20:37, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Yet the simplest test fails: geoff@webster[95] ~: touch /foo touch: cannot touch '/foo': Permission denied You have to actually *use* sudo... e.g. "sudo touch /foo" ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedor

Re: problem with sudo

2022-11-19 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 9:14 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo) > What's going on? -srw ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le.

Re: problem with sudo

2022-11-19 Thread Geoffrey Leach
H good question. It appears that gmail lost most of the original mail. So, trying again The problem is that having used visudo to give user geoff (a member of wheel) the necessary permissions to access root without password,i.e.,, %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL it appears tha

Re: problem with sudo

2022-11-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Geoffrey Leach writes: any suggestion as what might be my probem (yes, change made with visudo) Perhaps if you try to actually describe what your problem is, someone might be able to figure it out for you. But merely stating that you have some kind of a "problem with sudo" is not very il