Bayard Bell wrote:
On 29 Apr 2011, at 02:43, John B Brown wrote:

Dear Bradley,

        There is no root group on my machine, and I added myself to wheel group using 
'Preferences.' I left the 'wheel' group sudoers lines untouched. I added my user name to 
sudoers. "jbb     ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL"

        There is no tree '/Local' on my machine. sudo is in the same place. 
There is no subtree labeled 'Default/Groups.' I use 'locate' for system search. 
What system are you on? Mine is Snow Leopard;

/Local isn't a directory tree, it's a namespace for DirectoryServices that 
accesses the BSD files (and some local XML data) for name service and config 
data. Does dscl actually give you an error when you attempt a command like:

dscl localhost -read /Local/Default/Groups/wheel GroupMembership

If so, what's the error? The diagnostics given here seem exactly what you need 
to get to the bottom of any problems you're having.


jbb@pinball:~
(1): % dscl -read /Local/Default/Groups/wheel GroupMembership
Cannot open remote host, error: DSOpenDirServiceErr
jbb@pinball:~
(2): % sudo dscl -read /Local/Default/Groups/wheel GroupMembership
Cannot open remote host, error: DSOpenDirServiceErr

        Whatever that means. As you can see by other notes, groups works me.

Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
John, I don't have this NOPASSWD issue. Did you add yourself to the wheel group?
pillbox:pixilla brad$ sudo which sudo
/usr/bin/sudo
pillbox:pixilla brad$ sudo grep -E "^%wheel" /etc/sudoers %wheel      ALL=(ALL) 
NOPASSWD: ALL
pillbox:pixilla brad$ dscl localhost -read /Local/Default/Groups/wheel | grep 
GroupMembership
GroupMembership: root brad
Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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