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sudo question

how do i go about adding a file to sudo so a user name oracle can run the file???

for some reason my man pages dont have anything for sudo.

files sudoers exist in /etc


can anyone help this is urgent


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To make changes to the sudo file, you should use the visudo command.

As for making changes - your MANPATH probably isn't set to read the man page. More than likely they are in /usr/local/man, so:

$ MANPATH=/usr/local/man
$ export MANPATH
$ man sudo (or man sudoers)

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