Configuring Sudo

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 30 04:18:20 UTC 2009


Andrew Ross wrote:
> Hi Rahul,
> 
> It's annoying to have to do visudo after every install :)
> 
> Couple of comments:
> 
> Technical
>  - You might want to mention that your step requires root access (obvious to us, but perhaps not to a newbie)
>  - Not sure on the Fedora style, but using "#" denotes root user in RH docs. Eg # echo 'sampleusername'.....
> 

Done

> Neatness
>  - The OCD part of my brain would prefer editing the sudoers file rather appending :) 
> 

I have already added a reference to another guide that does it using
visudo but teaching newbies vi when they are just getting started didn't
seem a kind thing to do.


> Grammar
>  - s/Fedora uses regular user account/Fedora uses a regular user account

Reworded. Thanks.

Rahul




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