* Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas j...@wxcvbn.org [2013-09-15 04:22:08 +0200]:
Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Yeah, I should
On 09/15/13 01:01, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Alexander Hall alexan...@beard.se wrote:
On 09/15/13 00:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and
then `adduser jwalton sudo`.
What did you expect from that command?
On 2013-09-15, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Shawn. Sorry to go offlist.
So, I'm trying to do some initial testing. I'm on a MacBook with
OpenBSD in a VM. All I want to do is run my compiler over some source
files.
MacBooks have a funky keyboard, and when I try to use
I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and
then `adduser jwalton sudo`.
Now I'm stuck a loop of:
Enter username[]:
When I try and add my name, I'm told its there. When I try to RETURN
(no name), I looped back to the prompt. I have to break out with a ^C.
After the ^C
On 09/15/13 00:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and
then `adduser jwalton sudo`.
What did you expect from that command? And why?
Now I'm stuck a loop of:
Enter username[]:
When I try and add my name, I'm told its there. When I
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Alexander Hall alexan...@beard.se wrote:
On 09/15/13 00:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and
then `adduser jwalton sudo`.
What did you expect from that command? And why?
I'd expect the user jwalton to
2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com:
I wanted to add myself to the sudo group.
man sudo
man visudo
man adduser
man group
Best
Martin
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote:
2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com:
I wanted to add myself to the sudo group.
man sudo
man visudo
man adduser
man group
Thanks Martin.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Kenneth R Westerback
kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 06:41:58PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and
then `adduser jwalton sudo`.
Now I'm stuck a loop of:
Enter username[]:
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 01:08:05AM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com:
I wanted to add myself to the sudo group.
man sudo
man visudo
man adduser
man group
Are any of those directly useful for adding a group to a user's
supplementary groups? I'd
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote:
2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com:
I wanted to add myself to the sudo group.
man sudo
It appears to lack information on adding a user (I went through this
man page before asking the question).
Then, I went to
2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com:
man visudo
I don't know vi. I do known emacs, but its not on this system so I
Then learn it. This is unix.
You really should use visudo to edit /etc/sudoers, not an editor.
Best
Martin
PS: su - should also work.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013, at 06:47 PM, Martin Schröder wrote:
2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com:
man visudo
I don't know vi. I do known emacs, but its not on this system so I
Then learn it. This is unix.
You really should use visudo to edit /etc/sudoers, not an editor.
Note that
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 07:42:46PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
man visudo
I don't know vi. I do known emacs, but its not on this system so I
can't edit /etc/sudo by hand.
I tried to add emacs through pkg_add, but it appears broke. Surely
emacs has been ported to every *nix system in
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 06:41:58PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and
then `adduser jwalton sudo`.
Now I'm stuck a loop of:
Enter username[]:
When I try and add my name, I'm told its there. When I try to RETURN
(no name),
Thanks Shawn. Sorry to go offlist.
So, I'm trying to do some initial testing. I'm on a MacBook with
OpenBSD in a VM. All I want to do is run my compiler over some source
files.
MacBooks have a funky keyboard, and when I try to use visudo to move
the cursor around, some of the arrow keys don't
Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote:
2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com:
I wanted to add myself to the sudo group.
man sudo
It appears to lack information on adding a user (I went through this
man page
Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com writes:
Thanks Shawn. Sorry to go offlist.
So, I'm trying to do some initial testing. I'm on a MacBook with
OpenBSD in a VM. All I want to do is run my compiler over some source
files.
Parallels?
MacBooks have a funky keyboard, and when I try to use
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 02:28:15AM +0200, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote:
2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com:
I wanted to add myself to the sudo group.
man sudo
On 09/14/13 18:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I'm trying to add myself to sudoers. I used `su -` to get root, and
then `adduser jwalton sudo`.
Now I'm stuck a loop of:
Enter username[]:
When I try and add my name, I'm told its there. When I try to RETURN
(no name), I looped back to the prompt.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Brian McCafferty br...@mccafferty.ca wrote:
On 09/14/13 18:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Just in case you didn't notice, when you first install you should have mail.
$mail
It will describe reading afterboot and many other things, even an example
of adding the
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 09:28:07PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Brian McCafferty br...@mccafferty.ca wrote:
On 09/14/13 18:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Just in case you didn't notice, when you first install you should have mail.
$mail
It will describe
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 20:14, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I really don't get why this shit is so f**k'ing difficult. How is
running around with a root terminal open more secure than exec'ing one
command under sudo???
I think you're going to be in for a long day. It's not really very hard to
drive
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 20:14, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I really don't get why this shit is so f**k'ing difficult. How is
running around with a root terminal open more secure than exec'ing one
command under sudo???
I think
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 09:28:07PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Brian McCafferty br...@mccafferty.ca
wrote:
On 09/14/13 18:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Just in case you didn't notice, when
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 07:42:46PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
snip
And 'usermod -G sudo jwalton' does not work, either. It errors with
Can't append group sudo for user jwalton.
This stuff really should not be this hard...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you really want
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Yeah, I should have taken a screen capture. I don't use the mail
program too often (its been years since I've had to), so it was not a
priority.
Screen capture? In order to convey what was presumably a one line
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Yeah, I should have taken a screen capture. I don't use the mail
program too often (its been years since I've had to), so it was not a
Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Yeah, I should have taken a screen capture. I don't use the mail
program too often (its been
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