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Enabling 'SUDO'

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/enabling-sudo.55318/

anantkhaitan
anantkhaitan Original post #1
Apr 17, 2007 at 2:54 PM
I m using some GUI steps to enable SUDO in distros like Fedora for a particular user

1>Open Terminal, type

2>Open a File Manager like
# nautilus

3>Goto /etc directory and right click>Properties on 'sudoers' file

4>Change the Owner Access permission to 'Read and Write'. And close the window.

5>Double click and open the file..and search for this
## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
below that include this
<username> ALL=(ALL) ALL
Instead of <usename> type ur preferred username
NOTE: U can add more than one user

6>Save and close. Now again change the Owner Access permission to 'Read only'

7>Thats all.

I know there are CLI step using chmod but this may be easy to understand

courtesy kaustav_geek
M
Apr 17, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Aah, why go through all this when you can do it in 4 steps
Code:
su
visudo
make whatever changes you want
save it.
freebird
Apr 17, 2007 at 4:42 PM
Always use visudo for editing sudoers file.