From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01122158020 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:30:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5ED4EE0A02; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2384E09ED for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 29QLUBKa004369 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:30:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!! To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20221026192203.4721a707@digimed.co.uk> <44b8fdd1-a618-ad1c-3b9b-e256ad555440@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20221026210823.70f96fcc@digimed.co.uk> <09a7ac00-25d8-da1f-e952-dfbf8b1a11f4@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20221026221314.50f0415c@digimed.co.uk> From: Grant Taylor Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: <8307d56d-5a90-3953-150f-621d188b6a4b@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:29:14 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20221026221314.50f0415c@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 89a2f1d2-7df6-45b1-9fd3-15425136d1cd X-Archives-Hash: dd47ac853dd4ea9b19b3f920b5f8db05 On 10/26/22 3:13 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > They and you are different people. You are looking at it from the > perspective of a user accidentally locking themself out of the system, > so su is the best way to be able to fix it. I agree with you there. I > was looking at it from the perspective of a third party changing sudo > right without your consent. We were at cross purposes. ACK Thank you for clarifying. -- Grant. . . . unix || die