sudo doesn't work, I'm not in sudoers file, but I am.

[Les Mikesell]

Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 23:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> In fact, my password, while longer than most, is about half the length
>> of roots, which is so long its not usable with ssh or samba.  For that
>> reason, I wouldn't mind being forced to use roots password to sudo. 
> 
> That's what "su" is for, surely?  "su" to become root, "sudo" to pretend
> to be root.

su is the low-level 'switch user' command.  If you aren't already root, 
you have to type the new user's password to continue.  Sudo has a more 
complex scheme to configure operations that can be done as a different 
user without typing any password or by typing your own password.  Some 
distributions do not have a usable password for root but permit certain 
users to do operations as root via sudo with their own passwords.  On 
these, if you prefer to stay root instead of sudo'ing every command, you 
can simply 'sudo su -'.

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   Les Mikesell
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