Ok, after my major screw-up last week (I directly modified the sudoers file
but failed to change the permissions back to 0444), I flashed to the newest
OS upgrade and re-installed all of my applications. Now I need to modify
the sudoers file and plan to do it CORRECTLY this time, e.g. use visudo.
I'm not sure if it has visudo or not and my unit isn't handy, but here's a
safety net:
Install OpenSSH or Dropbear, then do
sudo gainroot
passwd
enter a root password
Now if you mess up your /etc/sudoers, you can always open Putty/Xterm on
your desktop and ssh into the root account using the root
Thanks, Paul. By default sudoers is not writable so in order to make
changes.
Nick.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:38 PM
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Subject: Re: Visudo Help
I'm not sure
f you want.
--Paul
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7;T return the
permissions back. :-( Lesson learned.
Nick.
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Subject: Re: Visudo Help
On 8/16/07, Dr. Nic
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 15:12:27 Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote:
> Ok, after my major screw-up last week (I directly modified the sudoers file
> but failed to change the permissions back to 0444), I flashed to the newest
> OS upgrade and re-installed all of my applications. Now I need to modify
> the
On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On this one visudo is not on the box but the real solution is don't chmod
> the file. VI it as root, then instead of doing wq to quit (write quit) do
> wq! (w q then exclamation point or more commonly known as bang) this will
> overr
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On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On Thursday 16 August 2007 20:44:16 Paul Klapperich wrote:
> On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On this one visudo is not on the box but the real solution is don't
> > chmod the file. VI it as root, then instead of doing wq to quit (write
> > quit) do wq! (w q then ex
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