sudoers file problem (I really messed it up) (Solved thanks to all)

[sara vasquez]

Paul Sladen wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, sara vasquez wrote:
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>Hello sara,
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>>so I change som stuff in my /etc/sudoers and did not make a backup
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>Reboot and select 'Recovery Mode' from the grub boot menu.  This will drop
>you at a root prompt.  You can then do:
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>  # EDITOR=nano visudo
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>'visudo' is a special wrapper than performs locking and syntax checking on
>the 'sudoers' file before letting you save it.
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>If you ever need to edit 'sudoers' directly again, then you should use:
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>  $ sudo visudo
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>The editor used is the one set with the environment variable 'EDITOR', so
>you can override this (like at the top), with:
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>  $ EDITOR=gedit sudo visudo
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>Hope that's useful and you get your machine back.  It's also useful to know
>that you can allow other users full administrator/sudo privileges with:
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>  $ sudo adduser sara admin
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>where 'sara' is the user in question.
>
>	-Paul
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Fixed it Thanks for all of your help