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   Sidney_Kotic to Carlos E.R.   
   Re: sudo   
   20 Oct 19 18:52:35   
   
   From: kant@have.it   
      
   On 10/20/19 5:37 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 21/10/2019 00.41, Sidney_Kotic wrote:   
   >> I've run into a problem.  Leap 15.1   
   >> Using yast I've tried to add my userid to sudo.   
   >> Specifically to run as root with ALL.   
   >> I get "ERROR   
   >>         Cannot write settings."   
   >   
   > Start by posting the entire file, because I don't understand a word of   
   > the above.   
   >   
   > egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*$|^#" /etc/sudoers   
   >   
   As root:   
   snail:~ # egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*$|^#" /etc/sudoers   
   Defaults always_set_home   
   Defaults secure_path="/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"   
   Defaults env_reset   
   Defaults env_keep = "LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION   
   LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE   
   LC_ATIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS XDG_SESSION_COOKIE"   
   Defaults !insults   
   Defaults targetpw   # ask for the password of the target user i.e. root   
   ALL   ALL=(ALL) ALL   # WARNING! Only use this together with 'Defaults   
   targetpw'!   
   root ALL=(ALL) ALL   
      
   As lowly me:   
   bill@snail:~> egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*$|^#" /etc/sudoers   
   grep: /etc/sudoers: Permission denied   
      
      
   As root:   
   snail:~ # ls -laR /etc/sudoers*   
   -r--r----- 1 root root 3391 Oct 14 09:14 /etc/sudoers   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3033 Oct 20 15:39 /etc/sudoers.YaST2.new   
      
   /etc/sudoers.d:   
   total 0   
   drwxr-x--- 1 root root    0 Oct 14 09:14 .   
   drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5380 Oct 20 17:13 ..   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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