how to add myself to sudoers?

[kmitnick]

hey guys,
I see that the title says it all, so how can I do it
so that I run for example sudo yum install --------- without su - and password ???

[bigtomrodney]

What happpened with the other thread? How much progress have you made?

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...coomand-2.html

[kmitnick]

no body even looked at it after I posted my last post!!

[bigtomrodney]

If you want to use visudo, you need to become familiar with vi first. The basic commands are -

• i - insert mode
• esc - exit insert mode
• :wq - write and quit

You will need to run as root or using su -.

[peteh]

There's a useful sudoers manual here.

[oz]

Here's another good sudo howto that might help get you up and running:

Sudo Howto - Waikato Linux Users Group

[jestaji]

Hey Buddy,

use the following steps to enable sudo permission for the user.

(vi /etc/sudoers )file logging in as root. add the user as mentioned in red tags..

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
%user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Now that ur sudo is active. !!!!

Regards,
~Destined

[axel]

Check this. It can't be more analytic :P

Fedora 9 Installation Guide - Configuring sudo

[wbens]

This is the way I go about it in Centos:

Go to /etc/sudoers and change:

## Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

to

## Same thing without a password
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Then go to /etc/group and add your username to the wheels group (assuming
your username is user101):

wheel:10:root,user101

However, you need to be either root or a super user (sudo user) in order for you to edit these two files.

Thanks.
--Willie

[IsaacKuo]

Hey Buddy,

use the following steps to enable sudo permission for the user.

(vi /etc/sudoers )file logging in as root. add the user as mentioned in red tags..

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
%user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Now that ur sudo is active. !!!!

Regards,
~Destined

In case it isn't obvious, the red line above will provide full root access to EVERY regular user (every user in the "user" group). And there isn't even a need to enter any password to reconfirm one's own identity!

Any regular user can simply enter the command "sudo su" and he's logged in as root. No password of any sort needed.