Setting up sudo - Revision history

Gr0x0rd at 03:05, 4 December 2010

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Next, we will emerge sudo, which will allow you to do things as a super user from your own account.

Next, we will emerge sudo,
# which will allow you to do things as a super user from your own account.

emerge -av app-admin/sudo

# Once sudo is installed, you may have to run

etc-update

# Now we'll need to add your account to the list of sudoers.

nano -w /etc/sudoers

# Find the line that says

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

# and just below add

<your username> ALL=(ALL) ALL

# and use ctrl-x to exit then save the file. A note about sudo-
# you can run any command using sudo, so long as you enter "sudo"
# before the command. Sudo will then ask you for a password. Now
# that sudo is installed, log out of the root account.

logout

# now enter your new credentials to log into the system.

login: <username>
password: <your password>

Once sudo is installed, you may have to run

etc-update

Now we'll need to add your account to the list of sudoers.

nano -w /etc/sudoers

Find the line that says

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

and just below add

<your username> ALL=(ALL) ALL

and use ctrl-x to exit then save the file. A note about sudo-
you can run any command using sudo, so long as you enter "sudo"
before the command. Sudo will then ask you for a password. Now
that sudo is installed, log out of the root account.

logout

now enter your new credentials to log into the system.

login: <username>
password: <your password>

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		+	From now on you'll never need to use your root account or password unless it's an emergency and you're dealing with security issues or hardware failure. Whenever you want to run a command as root, all you need do is prefix that command with ''sudo''.

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-Next, we will emerge sudo, which will allow you to do things as a super user from your own account.
+Next, we will emerge sudo, which will allow you to do things as a super user from your own account. Think of it as a simple prefix that makes you god, but only when you need to be. Here's a great [http://xkcd.com/149/ example].
-  emerge -av app-admin/sudo
+  '''#''' emerge -av app-admin/sudo
-Once sudo is installed, you may have to run
+Now we'll need to add your account to the list of sudoers.
-Now we'll need to add your account to the list of sudoers.
+ '''#''' nano -w /etc/sudoers
- nano -w /etc/sudoers
+=== /etc/sudoers ===
 Find the line that says
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 and just below add
-  <your username>		ALL=(ALL) ALL
+  ''username''	ALL=(ALL) ALL
-and use ctrl-x to exit then save the file. A note about sudo-
+Now that sudo is installed, log out of the root account.
-  logout
+  '''#''' logout
-now enter your new credentials to log into the system.
+Now enter your new credentials to log into the system.
-  login: <username>
+  login: ''username''
-  password: <your password>
+  password: ''<your password>''
-From now on you'll never need to use your root account or password unless it's an emergency and you're dealing with security issues or hardware failure. Whenever you want to run a command as root, all you need do is prefix that command with ''sudo''.
+ '''$'''