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There is a program I wish to install that requires sudo. I have sudo installed, but cannot access the configuration file, I'm told I don't have rights to the dir. Is there any instructions on how to configure sudo? Ordinarily, I use su, which is easy to use. I've gone to the sudo website, but no help. I can su to root, and maybe that would give me access to the config file using vi. Any help, much appreciated.

TIA

jbarntt56

In a terminal as root

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visudo

Hi Ken,

Thanks for your help, but I must be missing something. I su to root, run visudo, and make the changes, but when I login w/o su and use sudo, all I get is a list of possible commands and options. I am a member of the wheel group, and I do know how to edit and save a file via vi. Any additional help would be much appreciated.

TIA,

jbarntt56

I'm not sure what you're trying to do but sudo by it's self does nothing, it must be followed by the command you wish to run as root.
Unlike su you'll be back at a user prompt afterword not a root prompt.

Maybe it would help if you show us the relevant line in /etc/sudoers you added and also the complete command that you run that doesn't work as you expect including the output you get, that might help.

Hi All,

I screwed up. I actually configured sudo correctly using visudo, but then forgot that sudo is different from su, (which I am familiar with). It came to me this AM that the syntax for sudo is like vi /path/to/file/filename, as an example. Works well, and apologies for wasting your time. Thanks for holding my hand

Sorry for being a dolt.

jbarntt56

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks