How To Use Etc Sudoers D
Add users to the wheel group to allow them to have root privilege.
How to use etc sudoers d. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics receive our newsletter use the advanced search subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Sudo visudo f etc sudoers d file to edit. How to give a user sudo privileges. In check only mode only the argument to f may be indicating that sudoers will be read from the standard input. You are currently viewing lq as a guest.
To edit etc sudoers file use following command. Use files in etc sudoers d so you can run sudo commands no password managed to bork things up and had to reboot into recovery to get into a root shell and fix the stupid thing now that one is where there may be some genuine advantage if you b0rk it. Historically the wheel group has been used for this on unix and unix like systems. It is recommended to use visudo to edit the sudoers file. As with the etc sudoers file itself you should always edit files within the etc sudoers d directory with visudo.
The syntax for editing these files would be. Search for etc sudoers d preceded by a sign by typing. With this option visudo will edit or check the sudoers file of your choice instead of the default etc sudoers. The lock file used is the specified sudoers file with tmp appended to it. You know all you need to do is zap the last file you edited or added in etc sudoers d.
Please consider adding local content in etc sudoers d instead of directly modifying this file. So you can create multiple files based on your teams or groups under etc sudoers d and add respective sudo permissions for users or groups in your organization. See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. Sudo visudo f etc sudoers. Visudo makes sure that sudoers is edited by one user at a time and provides necessary syntax checks.
To see which users are in the sudo group we can use a grep command. Read drop in files from etc sudoers d the here does not mean a comment includedir etc sudoers d.