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Date:      Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:45:05 -0700
From:      Joshua Lokken <joshualokken@attbi.com>
To:        "E. J. Cerejo" <edinho64@netscape.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cdrecord, cdrdao and gtoaster
Message-ID:  <20030409234505.GA23120@joloxbox.joshualokken.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E94A93B.7050403@netscape.net>
References:  <20030409175619.V91268-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <3E94A93B.7050403@netscape.net>

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* E. J. Cerejo (edinho64@netscape.net) wrote:
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==> 
==> fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar wrote:
==> >On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
==> >
==> >
==> >>That didn't work either!  I gave it write permissions but I still get
==> >>the same error.
==> >
==> >
==> >Instead of messing with the permissions, why don't you try sudo?
==> >That way, you can run the programs as root.  works like a charm.
==> >
==> >
==> >            Fer
==> >
==> 
==> I've heard very good things about sudo but I was never able to figure 
==> out on how to write the sudoers file from reading the man page, I tried 
==> to use it for the mount command before I ended up doing something else 
==> to solve that problem instead of sudo and since then I haven't fooled 
==> around with sudo anymore. I looked for a simple tutorial on it but 
==> didn't find much documentation except for the manuals.

You need to use the visudo utility that comes with sudo.  This will allow
you to edit the sudoers file (/etc/sudoers) to allow users, groups, etc.
to use the root commands you specify. 

--
Joshua

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