I'm having problems adding a user to the sudoers list via the /etc/sudoers file.
$ whoami
iain
And they said I was crazy!
$ which visudo
/usr/sbin/visudo
$ ls -la /usr/sbin/visudo
---x--x--x 1 root wheel 186768 23 Jun 2009 /usr/sbin/visudo
$ sudo su -
Password:
macbook:~ root# whoami
root
macbook:~ root# visudo
The file opens in vi:
# this line is the one I added to sudoers
# I gave ALL as access to try and get this to work
# it's the same setting as my account, which works.
%yvonne ALL=(ALL) ALL
I save the file. It shows "unchanged" here because I'd already done it.
visudo: /etc/sudoers.tmp unchanged
macbook:~ root# logout
Log in as yvonne…
$ sudo su - yvonne
yvonne@87 02/08/2013 19:34 $ whoami
yvonne
Try to run anything via sudo
:
yvonne@88 02/08/2013 19:34 $ sudo ls
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password:
**yvonne is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.**
I'm perplexed, can anyone give me any help or insight so that I can give the yvonne
account access to sudo
? It would be much appreciated.