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[Motasim Sakallah]

What is the exact error you're getting, and how did you edit the sudoers file? 

Mo
On Sunday, April 15 2007 3:07 pm Steve wrote:
> I was trying to get Firestarter to on boot up to load its self in as
> root and run in the background.Quick note I am brand new to Ubuntu and
> do not know much about it. I found instructions on how to do this but
> must have mistyped something in the /etc/sudoers file now I get an error
> anytime I try to do that requires root password. Can I fix this with out
> reloading software or if not is there a way to save all my settings and
> configurations. I have spent hours getting my laptop running the way I
> want it and now I mess something up.
>
> Here is my /etc/sudoers file:
> # /etc/sudoers
> #
> # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
> #
> # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
> # Host alias specification
>
> # User alias specification
>
> # Cmnd alias specification
>
> # Defaults
>
> Defaults    !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn
>
> # User privilege specification
> root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
> # %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL (Not sure where the # came from but think this is
> my problem)
> %steve ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/firestarter (I add this line)