Enabling 'SUDO'

[anantkhaitan]

I m using some GUI steps to enable SUDO in distros like Fedora for a particular user

1>Open Terminal, type

# su -

2>Open a File Manager like

# nautilus

3>Goto /etc directory and right click>Properties on 'sudoers' file

4>Change the Owner Access permission to 'Read and Write'. And close the window.

5>Double click and open the file..and search for this

## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

below that include this

<username> ALL=(ALL) ALL

Instead of <usename> type ur preferred username
NOTE: U can add more than one user

6>Save and close. Now again change the Owner Access permission to 'Read only'

7>Thats all.

I know there are CLI step using chmod but this may be easy to understand

courtesy kaustav_geek

 

[mehulved]

Aah, why go through all this when you can do it in 4 steps

su
visudo

make whatever changes you want
save it.

 

[freebird]

Always use visudo for editing sudoers file.