linux obviously, red hat something, bash shell

user1 has sudo capability, user2 has all the same groups and entries in sudoers as user1 yet user2 doesnt have access to sudo

i have the root password but i hate being logged on as root

is there a user db config file that i need to run? (analogous to ldconfig for programs)

2/7/2008 6:27:31 PM

umm i hate to state the obvious but do you know how to configure sudo. did you look at the config? visudo

2/7/2008 7:18:04 PM

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"user2 has all the same groups and entries in sudoers as user1 yet user2 doesnt have access to sudo"

durr of course i edited sudoers with visudo and added user2 to the list of allowed users

that is the problem user1 and user2 are in the same groups and both are in sudoers and user2 cant use sudo while user1 can

2/7/2008 7:21:30 PM

did you logout and log back in as user2?

2/7/2008 7:51:04 PM

yeah with no luck

2/7/2008 8:24:08 PM

if you've properly updated sudoers and everything, then there's probably a typo somewhere, i'd guess.

2/7/2008 8:27:07 PM

so you have an entry for user1 and user2 in /etc/sudoers? or you have an entry for user1's group in there?

2/7/2008 9:02:07 PM

an entry for user1 and user2 in User_Alias ADMINS and the formatting is the same as the example that is commented out

2/7/2008 9:07:54 PM

so you have?

User_Alias ADMINS = user1, user2
ADMINS ALL=(ALL) ALL


correct?

2/7/2008 9:52:24 PM

Quote :

"ADMINS ALL=(ALL) ALL"

this did it

thx

im such a linux n00b

[Edited on February 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM. Reason : 

2/7/2008 10:06:02 PM

np, I literally do this for a living

2/7/2008 10:19:47 PM

lawl@sudo

2/7/2008 10:30:38 PM

2/7/2008 10:48:24 PM

thats basically what im trying to do

i got hungry

2/7/2008 11:05:13 PM

^^that is on my door at work

2/8/2008 10:30:26 AM