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[E. J. Cerejo]

ms at probsd.org wrote:
>>
>>ms at probsd.org wrote:
>>
>>>replace ecerejo.Belkin with: localhost
>>>
>>>then visudo
>>>
>>>what now?
>>>
>>>michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>ms at probsd.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>example - assuming your user name is noltie on a host named flowers
>>>>>
>>>>>ee /usr/local/etc/sudoers
>>>>>
>>>>>%noltie     flowers:NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
>>>>>
>>>>>Then type: visudo
>>>>>
>>>>>To close and write the change, just do: Shift+:wq
>>>>>
>>>>>then as user noltie: sudo /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
>>>>
>>>>I get an error, this is the line I used:
>>>>
>>>>%kdedude ecerejo.Belkin:NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
>>>>
>>>>and I get this error when I try saving it with visudo:
>>>>
>>>>/usr/local/etc/sudoers.tmp: 28 lines, 637 characters.
>>>>
>>>>>>>sudoers file: syntax error, line 27 <<<
>>>>>>
>>>>What now?
>>>
>>It doesn't give an error when saving if I put just this:
>>
>>%kdedude localhost = NOPASSWD: /usr/X11R6/bin/xcdroast
>>
>>but when I run it complains saying that kdedude is not in sudoers file,
>>tried it without the "%" sign and it complained again.  The only way it
>>worked was when I put this in there:
>>
>>%wheel        ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
>>
>>but I don't want to do that though, I just want to be able to run a few
>>commands and not "ALL" commands.
> 
> 
> change:
> 
> %kdedude localhost = NOPASSWD: /usr/X11R6/bin/xcdroast
> 
> to
> 
> %kdedude   localhost=NOPASSWD: /usr/X11R6/bin/xcdroast
> 
> visudo
> 
> sudo /usr/X11R6/bin/xcdroast

That didn't work either but I finally got it to work, I put this line on 
my /etc/hosts file:

192.168.2.72            ecerejo.Belkin ecerejo

to create alias to ecerejo and then I edited sudoers with this:

kdedude   ecerejo=NOPASSWD:  /usr/X11R6/bin/xcdroast

and it worked.  The I replaced kdedude with %wheel to allow every member 
of the wheel group to run it and it worked also.  I had tried sudo 
before but I was unsuccessful and got even more confused reading the man 
pages now the sudoers.sample file is starting to make some sense!

Many thanks,

E. J. Cerejo