Setting up sudo

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, 

1. which will allow you to do things as a super user from your own account.

emerge -av app-admin/sudo

1. Once sudo is installed, you may have to run

etc-update

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

nano -w /etc/sudoers

1. Find the line that says

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

1. and just below add

<your username> ALL=(ALL) ALL

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

logout

1. 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>