sudoers disaster

[Robbo]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 13:38 -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 21:27 +0100, Robbo wrote:
> > login as the user your know that should have admin rights and type in
> > groups and check if "admin" is listed.  If it isn't you'll need to add
> > it using "usermod -G admin username".  
> 
> No, that's wrong.  Use:
>  adduser username admin
> 
> The 'usermod' command above will remove that user from all groups but
> 'admin'.  That's not quite what you want.  You want them to stay in all
> of the groups they are in, plus 'admin'.
> 
> See:  man adduser, adduser --help, man deluser, deluser --help, man
> useradd, man groupadd, groupadd --help, man usermod, man groupadd, man
> groupmod.

I stand corrected...