Difference between revisions of "Making your DW user a sudo account"

Latest revision as of 18:03, 15 March 2009

In recent versions of Ubuntu, this command given in Dreamwidth Scratch Installation doesn't work automatically:

usermod -a -G sudo username

When this happens, trying to use sudo as the dw user can give you this error:

dw is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.

To fix this, edit the /etc/sudoers file with your root user and uncomment this line (take off the leading #):

%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

You can also edit the /etc/sudoers file and add a line specific to dw instead, depending on which behaviour you want.

If you don't want to enter your password during sudo commands, use:

dw ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

If you do want to enter your password during sudo commands, use:

dw ALL = (ALL) ALL

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-This command given in [[Dreamwidth Scratch Installation]] doesn't seem to always work:
+In recent versions of Ubuntu, this command given in [[Dreamwidth Scratch Installation]] doesn't work automatically:
   usermod -a -G sudo <i>username</i>
@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
   dw is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
-To put your dw user into the sudo group another way, you can also edit the <code>/etc/sudoers</code> file and add a line, depending on which you want.
+To fix this, edit the <tt>/etc/sudoers</tt> file with your root user and uncomment this line (take off the leading #):
-If you don't want to enter your password during <code>sudo</code> commands, use:
+ %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
- dw  ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL
+You can also edit the <tt>/etc/sudoers</tt> file and add a line specific to dw instead, depending on which behaviour you want.
-If you do want to enter your password during <code>sudo</code> commands, use:
+If you don't want to enter your password during <tt>sudo</tt> commands, use:
+ dw ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL
+If you do want to enter your password during <tt>sudo</tt> commands, use:
   dw ALL = (ALL) ALL
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