On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Martin Schröder <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/9/15 Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]>: >> I wanted to add myself to the sudo group. > > man sudo It appears to lack information on adding a user (I went through this man page before asking the question).
Then, I went to the web and landed on an overflow page (I think its the 'meta' site, and not the 'stack' site). That's what took me to 'adduser'. > man visudo I don't know vi. I do known emacs, but its not on this system so I can't edit /etc/sudo by hand. I tried to add emacs through pkg_add, but it appears broke. Surely emacs has been ported to every *nix system in existence, so its baffling (to me) the package manager cannot find it. > man adduser I tried `adduser jwalton sudo`, and it did not work even though the command looks well formed. I got the command from the overflow site. > man group Does not appear applicable. I want to add a user to a group, and not create or delete groups. And 'usermod -G sudo jwalton' does not work, either. It errors with "Can't append group sudo for user jwalton". This stuff really should not be this hard... Jeff
