On Thu 17 Dec 2020 at 10:20:57 (-0600), I wrote: > On Thu 17 Dec 2020 at 10:13:28 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 04:02:31PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 09:51:37AM -0500, Jerry Mellon wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > When I installed Debian 10 the %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL had a "#" in > > > > front of it. Does the "%" have the same function as the "#"? > > > > > > No: "#" indicates a comment, i.e. that line is commented out. You'd > > > have to remove the "#" (not the "%", though) to make it effective. > > Take care! > > # this is a comment, > #1000 means UID 1000, > #include is a directive. > > People hit this snag in apparmor files too. > > > How did you (Jerry) end up with this configuration? This is not > > normal as far as I know. I can't imagine any Debian developer wrote > > a postinst script that would comment out individual lines in the > > /etc/sudoers file. > > > > I'm guessing there is more to this story than you're telling us. Either > > you didn't install Debian (perhaps you installed Raspbian or something), > > or you modified the sudoers file during or after the installation, or > > you inherited this system from someone else who modified it.... > > It might be helpful for the output of this command to be posted: > > ls --full-time /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/ > > (It will need sudo or root.)
Silly me. Using the code sudouse[r] ≡ /etc/sudoers, the OP states in their OP that they have edited the file after every one of their installations. (Not that I was interested enough to do a full post mortem on their report.) Cheers, David.
