Fedora :: Type "sudo Gedit" (before Trying "su") But Was Told Wasn't In Sudoers?
Dec 8, 2010
I've been a distro-hopper for a while and just installed FC14. I like it and it seems very stable on my older Presario laptop (2170us with 1-Gig Memory and 80-gig HDD).In other distros, I was able to open a Terminal, type "su" & <password> then type "gedit" and take care of things like the Workgroup name in Samba, adding a user to sudoers, etc.....but in FC14's Terminal, typing "su" & <password> and then "gedit" results in all kinds of error messages (that I can't recall right now). I did find after typing "su" & <password>, that if I then typed "sudo gedit", gedit opens just fine.I had tried to type "sudo gedit" (before trying "su") but was told I wasn't in sudoers.I suppose it's minor for someone like me who can eventually find a way around it...but why won't gedit open when I'm a superuser by just typing "gedit"?
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Feb 8, 2010
I set-up my Sudo it works but when I use Gedit I get the following message
Jean-Luc@localhost:~> sudo gedit /etc/fstab
(gedit:7137): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
samething with /etc/sudoers
If I use vi it's ok, I can modify and save. In Fedora it run ok, but with opensuse?
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Feb 15, 2011
I have previously set up sudo via adding my name to the wheel group and then giving full privileges to the wheel group in the sudoers file. Now I choose to learn to limit that. Had noticed the most frequent use I have of sudo is to run yum update. This got me thinking, could I remove the wheel group privileges and add the following line in sudoers to limit the privilege to simply running yum, and furthermore, make it so I could run yum without a password:
## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
rootALL=(ALL) ALL
Troy ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/yum
I think that would in fact work (if I understood one of the pages here, it will work). However, upon further thinking I realized that in such a case then anyone sitting at my computer could then use yum, without a password, to install or remove any file on my system � probably not a good idea. As a result I have to ask, can I tighten the privilege even further such that the only privilege so given was to run �yum update� and nothing else? (for example if they ran �yum install� it would fail). If you can do it, how?
Last, I was going to limit the privilege, time wise and try wise, by adding the following to the sudoers file:
# Defaults specification
Defaults:Troy timestamp_timeout=0, passwd_tries=3
Will that really work to limit the elevated privilege so I don't have elevated privileges lingering about, or is there a better way to do so?
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Mar 25, 2010
I get this message if i try to use sudo/gksudo. What causes this, how can I solve it? It has been working for years. If i remember correcttly there was a sudo update few days ago, maybe it doesnt work since then, i havent used it in the last few days.
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Dec 24, 2010
Whenever I try to run something as root using the sudo comand I get: Code: ramy is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
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Jan 4, 2010
I have a problem, I changed the own of all the etc folder, it was a mistake, but I can't change it again, now, I cant use "sudo" because root is not the own. When I try to use "sudo" this is the error: sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0. so, the own is my user instead of the root. How can I change it again?
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After install TexLive, sudo stop working. If I run sudo:
Quote:
sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
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Edit: Hal and dbus is not working either, if i startx I don't have network manager or automatic mount of pen and disks.
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May 31, 2011
When I try to use sudo, I get this error message.
Code:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
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Oct 18, 2010
After upgrading GNOME to 2.32 in my openSUSE 11.3 x86_64 running graphic applications with sudo is impossible. (that means it worked before upgrading GNOME)
Code:
etam@etam-laptop:~> sudo xeyes
root's password:
No protocol specified
Error: Can't open display: :0.0 From /etc/sudoers:
Code:
Defaults env_keep = "LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS XDG_SESSION_COOKIE XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE QT_IM_SWITCHER DISPLAY"
Some interesting facts:
[code]....
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Apr 12, 2011
This may be a stupid (?) question, but does any one know of a patch for sudo that allows the sudoers information to be pulled from mySQL?
I run multiple servers with multiple people working on them and would like a one-stop update of permissions.
Yes, I could use rsync or the like, but I'm just wondering if this has been done, or could be done.
(Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I'm kinda new around here, posting wise and this seemed to fit. Feel free to move it if it's not)
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since a recent upgrade to Mandriva 2010.1 I am not able to 'sudo' as administrator or when I use the 'root' password. I am the only user on this machine (Dell Inspiron 530S multi-booted with Window's Vista Home Premium, Ubuntu 10.4, and Mandriva 2010.1). I can get into the 'Manage Users' section of the control center by authenticating as 'root' but I can't access 'sudoers file' from command line.
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Jan 21, 2011
I was changing some file permissions with the chmod 777 command and i accidentally executed:
Code:
sudo chmod 777 /*/*/*/*
and now i can't get root access to anything. If I try executing a sudo command i get:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0777, should be 0440
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
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Oct 13, 2010
I've set up a low cost box with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx at home behind a router, and managed to get remote access running. My goal is to be able to host a small website and work on it remotely, so I isntalled ftp (vsftpd). When I tried to edit the vsftpd.conf file in Vinagre from work, I could only open it read-only, no surprise. When I tried 'sudo gedit' or 'sudo gedit /etc/vsftpd.conf' from terminal in Vinagre, I received the prompt for the password to elevate privileges (again, expected); however, after I hit Enter, nothing happens. I've tried a bunch of different things, but I can't get it to work. I can stop & start my ftp service with 'sudo service vsftpd stop/start' and it seems to work fine.
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I am trying to edit a postinfo.xsl in my root file dir, and with the command:
frank@linux-avnb:~> sudo gedit
(gedit:14150): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: frank@linux-avnb:~>
I get the following. what am i doing wrong?
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Jul 15, 2010
When I try to open sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
by entering it in the "run tool" nothing appears...
what's wrong?
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May 31, 2011
I have tried several things to attempt to fix my sudoers file however it is still coming up with errors. The error says
[code]...
the sudoers configuration file is set to the default as I have ran a dpkg on it, have also uninstalled and reinstalled it, and went over the configuration file ensuring it looked like the defaults I had seen online.
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Mar 14, 2011
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May 24, 2011
I've installed apache2 and and when i access my URL from outside using www.proxy-ervice.de i just get a webpage with Index of /so i've run the command sudo gedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf which give me the error: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file'/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.2EUJVV': No such file or directory(gedit:2509):Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of`/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directorymy httpd.conf is as follows,Userdir public_htmlOptions +IndexesOptions AllServerName localhost
<Directory "/home/gav/public_html/">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
[code]....
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#!/bin/bash
#modprobe snd-abawe
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Sep 16, 2010
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Mar 12, 2010
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Mar 12, 2010
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E: Type �sudo� is not known on line 55 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialogue to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
now whene i got in the winehq.list the text has gone and i take this error in update manager,my software center doesn't work and my terminal whenever i type sudo commands says
E: Type �sudo� is not known on line 55 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
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E: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 52 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list E: The list of sources could not be read.
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