[NTLUG:Discuss] visudo/sudoers question

[Victor Brilon]

The idea behind sudo is that you set up users to execute commands as  
the root user by using *their own* password. Thus you don't have to  
give out the root password to them, nor have to change it when one of  
them leaves your system (job/school/whatever) -- you just remove them  
from the sudoers file.

Victor

On Mar 24, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Tom Hayden wrote:

> I am trying to set up the sudoer file on my linux system so that any
> user in the "sudo" group can sudo any command, but have to enter the
> root pass word first. According to the man pages the following  
> should work:
>
> User_Alias SUDO = %sudo
>
> SUDO ALL=PASSWD:ALL
>
> However, when I do this, any user in the "sudo" group can sudo any
> command with out the root pass word. Does any one have any  
> suggestions?
>
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