visudo has the advantage of doing a sudo check on the editted file before overwriting the existing one, so if you typo it, you didn't just completely bork yourself. In practice, I find myself sed'ing /etc/sudoers a lot, which wouldn't have this protection. Be sure to crush cache if you choose to edit the files without visudo.
Actually, I believe you need to use visudo as root to edit that file. Also, if you are still running Knoppix, you probably have an actual root you can log into though I could be wrong on that as I have not used Knoppix in years.Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:What he said :-)
On Jun 18, 2012 6:16 PM, "JD Austin" <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:That would work.Alternately add yourself to the wheel group and uncomment that line in the /etc/sudoers file.On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:45 PM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
When I tried to use sudo, I saw this message:
(username) is not in the sudoers file
Searching the 'net for a solution, I found that perhaps I can just
edit /etc/sudoer to add this line:
joe ALL=(ALL) ALL
to get sudo to work. Is that correct or ill advised?
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