Group of "sudoers"?

[Derick Centeno]

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!
>
> --
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