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Adding a user to sudoers file

On Linux you'll need to add your user account to the sudoers file so you can run certain tasks as a superuser (sudo, su). Here's an easy way:

Log in with your user account (not as root):
[martine@machine ~]# sudo
Password:
[root@machine martine]# chmod +w /etc/sudoers
[root@machine martine]# echo 'martine ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
[root@machine martine]# chmod -w /etc/sudoers

Posted by Mac Martine on April 9, 2008 07:59 AM |

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Thank you for this Mac! I was planning on doing this today, so I can stop logging in as root.

Posted by: Chris | April 9, 2008 08:17 AM

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