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Old 03-14-2012
Cannot make sudoers change work
I logged in as root and visudo'd /etc/sudoers.
I found several users with the username ALL=(ALL) ALL entries and added an account after the last one.
Saved the file.
When the user logs in and does "sudo su -" they are prompted for their password and then told they are not in the sudoers file.
Is there another step to "activate" the change?Smilie
# 2  
Old 03-14-2012
There's not another step, no, if you edited the file properly. It sort of sounds like you did, but there's also hints you didn't; you don't visudo /etc/sudoers, just visudo... Did you use visudo, or did you vi /etc/sudoers? visudo should run by itself, without any filename arguments.
# 3  
Old 03-14-2012
I did only visudo.
There are several entries for users with root priv and I inserted a new line after the last user.
# 4  
Old 03-14-2012
Check the line closely for differences. If possible, post it literally.
# 5  
Old 03-15-2012
Here is the section from /etc/sudoers where I added newuser

##
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
user1 ALL=(ALL) ALL
user2 ALL=(ALL) ALL
user3 ALL=(ALL) ALL
user4 ALL=(ALL) ALL
newuser ALL=(ALL) ALL

##
# 6  
Old 03-15-2012
Where do you see you have no password?
# 7  
Old 03-15-2012
I logged in as root and did visudo
Then I logged out of root and logged in as newuser
Here is the screen:

[newuser@zwork ~]$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for newuser:
newuser is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
[newuser@zwork ~]$
 
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