sudo

paul cooke paul.cooke100 at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon May 30 18:52:15 UTC 2005


On Monday 30 May 2005 18:24, Serg Belokamen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unless I am misstaking, which I am not since I have just tested this,
> sudo powers are only given to the first user, added during system
> installation.
>
> If you make another user, lets say by using adduser utility via a
> console, that user will not have any "special" previllages.
>

correct, to give any other user the ability to sudo, you have to edit the 
sudoers list using the special program visudo.




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