[plug] Unix file permission problem (I think)

[Russell Steicke]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:13:24AM +0800, Steve Boak wrote:
> Would changing the group membership using 'sudo chmod ...' in the 'steve' 
> xterm have worked as I expected? (I haven't set up sudo yet, as I am having 
> trouble decoding the cryptic man page :-)

That depends what you expected.  :)  But the answer is probably no, as
it wouldn't have mattered how you changed the permissions on that
directory.

sudo can do lots of interesting things, but for a mostly one-user
system with no "operator" type users or such, you can get a basic
setup where steve can run any command by running visudo as root, and
copying the line "root ALL=(ALL) ALL" to "steve ALL=(ALL) ALL".
visudo runs your editor on /etc/sudoers, and also checks the syntax of
the file after you finish.  If you don't like vi, try

  EDITOR=anothereditor visudo



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