sudo problems

decrease789 · Post by **decrease789** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:29 am

ok i've been looking for the answer to this for ages...

how the hell can i sudo on OS X? i can su fine. my /etc/sudoers file is in order... but everytime i use sudo... it prompts for the password. well... that shouldnt happen... so i type in the password and it says it's incorrect?

why can't i sudo?!?? it's driving me crazy. and the user is an admin... so no problem there either.

chetoo · Post by **chetoo** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:34 am

decrease789 wrote:ok i've been looking for the answer to this for ages...

how the hell can i sudo on OS X? i can su fine. my /etc/sudoers file is in order... but everytime i use sudo... it prompts for the password. well... that shouldnt happen... so i type in the password and it says it's incorrect?

why can't i sudo?!?? it's driving me crazy. and the user is an admin... so no problem there either.

As far as I remember your user should belong to the group 'wheel'. Please check it since I'm not sure now.

decrease789 · Post by **decrease789** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:51 am

doesnt matter anyway... ive clearly defined my user in the /etc/sudoers file in case it was group membership that was the problem which im pretty sure it's not

Post by **grobian** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:26 am

sudo asks for *your* password, not for the root password.

decrease789 · Post by **decrease789** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:03 am

oh right. i thought i tried that. obviously i hadn't

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