In both Fedora and PCLinuxOS Debian edition which I have installed recently it seems I need to add the only user to sudoers list to perform certain actions.
How to do this?
In both Fedora and PCLinuxOS Debian edition which I have installed recently it seems I need to add the only user to sudoers list to perform certain actions.
How to do this?
Hello,
Normally this is done by default during installation. As far as Ubuntu does it, this is what a basic sudoers file should look like if you have only a single user:
Defaults env_reset Defaults mail_badpass Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" # This fixes CVE-2005-4890 and possibly breaks some versions of kdesu Defaults use_pty # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL @includedir /etc/sudoers.d
And then in the /etc/sudoers.d/kdesu-sudoers file (optional if you don’t have KDE Plasma desktop)
Defaults!/usr/lib/*/libexec/kf5/kdesu_stub !use_pty
Then in your /etc/group file:
sudo:x:27:<your user name here>
The Sudoers file is pretty distro agnostic so you should be fine.