On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:32 AM, thveillon.debian <thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Jason Filippou wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When I first installed squeeze on my system, and being oblivious as to >> the presence of any sudoers file in general, I asked a friend to help me >> with the setting up of the sudoers file. I have a sneaking suspicion, >> however, that the configuration applied might be flawed, since whenever >> I'm required to input my password by sudo (to download and install >> software, for instance), the password required is my account password, >> and not the sudo password. Here is my sudoers file: >> >> # Host alias specification >> >> # User alias specification >> >> # Cmnd alias specification >> >> # User privilege specification >> root ALL=(ALL) ALL >> jason ALL=(ALL) ALL >> # Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password >> # (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move >> # it further down) >> # %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL >> >> I suspect that something may be wrong at line >> >> jason ALL=(ALL) ALL >> >> Anybody can help me with this? >> >> Thanks, >> Jason > > Hi, > > this is standard sudo behavior if you don't have a root account on your > machine. The line you refers to means that "jason" can use sudo from > anywhere (locally or remotely), to acquire any identity, and run any > command. > If you use the default: > > Defaults targetpw > > sudo will ask for the targeted user's password, if you just use "sudo"
"su" . . . right? > which implies obtaining root privileges, then the root passwd will be > asked for. To always ask for the root password use: > > Defaults rootpw > > > You need to use the command "visudo" to edit the sudo configuration file > (/etc/sudoers). > > > Tom > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- www.nealhogan.net www.lambdaserver.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org