i am getting an error when try to run sudo

[whiteSox]

it is working ..That was not it ..the sudo command is owned by root:system so every one who can exceute this command should also be part of the system group in the /etc/groups file .Thank you all for your help...

[Patrick Wallek]

>>root:system so every one who can exceute
>>this command should also be part of the
>>system group

No, not necessarily. Having everyone that needs sudo access be part of the system group could be bad anyway as that could give them access to things they don't need.

The permissions on sudo should be 'rwsr-xr-x' (at least on my HP-UX & Linux systems it is) which will allow anyone to run sudo.

[whiteSox]

it does not really matter if you give them the nopassword and ALL they have the access to the entire server any way...

[OldSchool]

"it does not really matter if you give them the nopassword and ALL they have the access to the entire server any way..."


I'm not sure who that was directed at, but if

user01 (ALL)=....

worked, then you may have a name resolution issue, as in what does "hostname" return, the short name of FQDN.

Also the "nopassword" option means they don't have to provide their password when initially using sudo.

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"they have the access to the entire server any way..."

And that doesn't bother you, or your security auditors?

[whiteSox]

The solution is already provided in the previous comment ..

[OldSchool]

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