Hi Jason:
There is a special version or component of vi which needs to be invoked
to access the sudoers file.
It is called visudo.
It is invoked from within superuser mode:
#visudo
The space (following the visudo command) indicates that you press the
Enter/Return key immediately afterwards.
You will be entered into the sudoers file. You will see:
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
It is underneath the above line that one enters the user identity which
the system will recognize together with root, and grant root
privileges.
Let's suppose I choose the user id to be moabdeeb, then recalling that
visudo acts just like vi, I press the escape key followed by the shift
and :, then the letter i on the keyboard which tells vi and visudo that
this file will have a new entry and then do the following:
moabdeeb ALL=(ALL) ALL
To save, press the escape key followed by w (for write, to save this
change). The sudoers file should now read as follows:
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
moabdeeb ALL=(ALL) ALL
Any other users are added to the sudoers file in a similar manner.
Quitting (after saving) from visudo, is exactly the same for visudo as
it would be for vi. Understanding therefore how vi/vim works is
essential for accessing and using visudo properly. If one needs to
learn more regarding vi/vim one can use vimtutor or vitutor. This is
done by:
#vimtuor
or
#vitutor
Good Luck...
On May 5, 2006, at 7:35 PM, Jason Christiansen wrote:
Firstly, let me say thank you to everyone who responded on the issue I
was having with Firewire installation a few weeks ago. I didn't
resolve the firewire install issue, but I did get another HD and just
installed YDL 4.1 this morning. Love it!
I do have a problem though...when I was going to edit the yaboot
config file, I tried to sudo the file in vi, but after entering my own
password, it said I wasn't in the group of sudoers or something to
that extent. Any hints on how I would get my user account into the
allowed "sudoers"? I'm fairly savvy in OS X, but I'm quite new to
Linux in general and YDL in particular, so any help is greatly
appreciated. Thanks!
--
Jason Christiansen
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"You can't say civilization isn't advancing;
in every war they kill you in a new way."
--Will Rogers
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