[rhn-users] sudo and NIS

[Brad Sharpe]

Brilliant!

I setup a group sudoers with a id greater than 500, added it to 
/etc/sudoers on client machine and worked like a charm.

Thanks,
Brad

At 12:37 PM 5/25/2006, you wrote:
>On 5/25/06, Brad Sharpe 
><<mailto:bsharpe at mdacorporation.com>bsharpe at mdacorporation.com> wrote:
>>I started by editing the /etc/sudoers (using visudo) file and entering 
>>%wheel ALL.=(ALL) ALL Then I added my own user account into the wheel 
>>group and tested on the server and it works.
>>
>>When I go to one of my other machines running NIS I am unable to run 
>>sudo, I get a permission error. If I add myself to the local machines 
>>wheel group it works. I don't want to edit every machines /etc/group file 
>>to get this to work. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>On RHEL3, only group id's 500 and higher are put in the NIS database by 
>default. The minimum group id is set in /var/yp/Makefile (MINGID).
>
>Also, remember to do make in /var/yp everytime the groups file is changed 
>to update the NIS databases.
>
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