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   Message 136,885 of 138,051   
   Carlos E.R. to All   
   Re: sudo   
   21 Oct 19 13:04:55   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 21/10/2019 03.52, Sidney_Kotic wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   The file is correct. What did you try to change there?   
      
   >   
   > As lowly me:   
      
   Not interested, I know you are not allowed.   
      
   > 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   
      
   Assuming that the changes would be there, please post /etc/sudoers.YaST2.new   
      
      
   You did run yaST as root, did you?   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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