From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 06 May 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:   
      
   >unruh wrote:   
      
   >> While your concerns are sometimes valid (esp with different versions   
   >> of kde) his problems do not sound like those you would get from that   
   >> origin.   
      
   People, please re-read what he posted.  On Fri, 03 May 2013 23:20:30   
   +1000 in Message-ID:  he writes   
   that the script contains:   
      
   ]echo "copies my config and tries to start ppp"   
   ]sudo cp -pf /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0.rhw   
   ]/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0   
      
   and   
      
   ]echo "Trying to connect"   
   ]sudo pppd lock modem crtscts asyncmap 00000000 defaultroute usepeerdns   
   ]debug /dev/ttyUSB0 460800 ipparam ppp0 linkname ppp0 call ppp0 noauth   
   ] || exit   
      
   and when he runs the script (see Message-ID:   
    on Sat, 04 May 2013 22:37:40   
   +1000), he sees:   
      
   ][daniel@localhost ~]$ ./ppp.sh   
   ]copies my config and tries to start ppp   
   ]daniel is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.   
   ]Trying to connect   
   ]daniel is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.   
   ][daniel@localhost ~]$   
      
   This quite obviously does not have anything to do with SUID, group   
   membership, the desktop environment, browser, network "helper" tools,   
   confusion of user configuration files or any other BS.   
      
   >the only installs I'm using are the Win7 and MD2009 installs, so the   
   >other installs have not contributed to my current problem!   
      
   Daniel, when you initially installed this script from your ISP, you   
   received specific instructions from them to ALSO edit the sudoers file.   
   At that time, you did so, and everything was working fine.  In your   
   re-install, you didn't edit that file, so sudo is preventing you from   
   running those commands as user "daniel".  It's NOT preventing you from   
   doing so when you 'su' to root and then run it.   The Mandriva install   
   wouldn't know "this" username would need to run "that" script (and the   
   commands it contains) so it wouldn't fix the sudoer's file by default.   
   The solution is to find those instructions from the ISP, and edit the   
   sudoers file as it says to.   
      
   [fermi ~]$ whatis sudo sudoers visudo   
   sudo               (8)  - execute a command as another user   
   sudoers            (5)  - list of which users may execute what   
   visudo             (8)  - edit the sudoers file   
   [fermi ~]$   
      
   'visudo' is a bit scary to the uninitiated, and there is likely some   
   simple "helper" tool to make it easier, but the instructions you   
   received from the ISP worked before, and you can do it again.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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