From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 17:17:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397E637B401 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 17:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from covert.brown-ring.iadfw.net (covert.brown-ring.iadfw.net [209.196.123.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7EB843FBD for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 17:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noltie@airmail.net) Received: from ppp04-285.algx.iadfw.net ([208.10.255.31] helo=wormwood.hillside.house) by covert.iadfw.net with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 193Pn2-0005N1-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2003 19:19:40 -0500 Received: (qmail 21294 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Apr 2003 00:13:35 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:13:35 -0500 From: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030410001334.GA21222@wormwood.hillside.house> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030409175619.V91268-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <3E94A93B.7050403@netscape.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E94A93B.7050403@netscape.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: sudo (was: Re: cdrecord, cdrdao and gtoaster) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 00:17:23 -0000 On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:14:03PM -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > > 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. > Perhaps taking a look at sudoers.sample (in /usr/local/etc) would help; I wrote mine by simply following the examples there. HTH Fred -- The consequences of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. - George Orwell, 1984