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Re: Configuring sudo by file, not by visudo etc



On Thu,09.Oct.08, 03:09:43, T o n g wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:53:34 -0500, ReikoShea wrote:
> 
> >> Is it possible to configure sudo by file, not by visudo etc?
> >> 
> > Most definitely can just overwrite /etc/sudoers instead of using visudo.
> > Not recommended, but does work.
> 
> Thanks. It works. Don't know why it didn't work previously. Do I have to 
> reboot?
 
Why would you have to do something like this? Sometimes you have to 
restart the program/service if it doesn't support reloading the 
configuration, but usually a full restart is not needed very often.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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