Subject: Sudoers (Was: Mac-on-Linux must be started by root?)
From: Ben Donley (bdonley@unchosen.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 10:28:28 MST
That rules. I'm doing that.
My /etc/sudoers says that it MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as
root.
I guess this is as good a time to learn vi as any, but does anyone want to
explain this for me? What does visudo do that "su -c 'emacs /etc/sudoers'"
doesn't?
- Ben
On Feb 24, 2000 at 04:00AM -0700, space19@earthlink.net wrote:
> I dont know if this is a properly secure way do do it but, I just set up
> sudo so I can initially start mol without su'ing. All I had to do is put
> this in /etc/sudoers:
> my_username ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/startmol
>
> It's kind of nice because if mol dies on me I can ^C^C it without a
> hassle.:-)
>
> sa
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