editing /etc/sudoers

[Petre Stojanov]

Maybe, a good way is to add the user to admin group...

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:

> Running 8.04. After adding another user I need to add her to the
> /etc/sudoers file. The Ubuntu forum,
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers talks about vi being the
> default editor for visudo in 8.04. Does this provide the same safeguards
> as visudo did?
>
> If I read the docs right the entry to allow the new user to install
> software would be "username ALL=(username) /usr/bin, /usr/sbin". Could
> someone please confirm this or correct me? Assuming it's correct, is
> that the only entry required? The docs I saw weren't that clear (or was
> it me who was dense?).
>
> Thanks.
>
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