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Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE



On Tuesday, February 05, 2019 08:21:16 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> The sudoers(5) man page is ridiculously complex, as is the format of
> the /etc/sudoers file.  For 99% of Debian users, it's also completely
> unnecessary to know it.  Just make sure your primary user account is in
> the sudo group, and you will be able to run ANY command with sudo, being
> prompted for your password if you haven't used sudo on that terminal
> in the last few minutes.

I'm not the OP, but speaking for the 99%, thank you very much!

> 
> You only need to learn this incredibly byzantine file syntax if you want
> to do something fancier than that.


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