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 -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key
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