/etc/sudoers file

[sandeep t]

I'm a normal user 'sthakkar' on Linux platform. I had the root passwd and I tried to modify the /etc/sudoers file.
[sthakkar@linux log]$su
Password:
[sthakkar@linux log]# visudo /etc/sudoers

Host_Alias        MACHINE= linux
User_Alias        USER= sthakkar
Cmnd_Alias      YPBIND= ypbind
Runas_Alias     ROOT= root

USER    RHEL4 = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/ypbind

When I do:
[sthakkar@linux log]$sudo -u sthakkar /sbin/ypbind
sthakkar is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Why?

[sandeep t]

The above things wirks when I comment the Cmnd_Alias.
Now, I want to give permissions to edit /etc/services file.?
Should I use 'sudoedit'?

[anomie]

Running
# visudo
is sufficient (without specifying a file).

When you run
sudo -u sthakkar /sbin/ypbind
you're telling sudo to run /sbin/ypbind as sthakkar. I don't think that's what you want. Remove the -u option.

Finally, why do you need to edit the /etc/services file?

[sandeep t]

Thanks ...
we are product based company and we have a product where we should add our service to /etc/services.