I'm not sure if it has visudo or not and my unit isn't handy, but here's a safety net:<br><br>Install OpenSSH or Dropbear, then do <br>sudo gainroot<br>passwd<br>enter a root password<br><br>Now if you mess up your /etc/sudoers, you can always open Putty/Xterm on your desktop and ssh into the root account using the root password you created. Additionally, you could do the above without ssh, or with /etc/ssh/sshd
modified to disallow root login. You should be able to switch to the
root user using 'su' if you have a root password set and known. You may
need to add 'user' to the wheel group or something, though<br><br>Why did you change the permissions to sudoers in the first place? My mistake is usually syntax errors inside /etc/sudoers. Oops.<br><br>--Paul<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dr. Nicholas Shaw</b> <<a href="mailto:Doc@docharley.com">Doc@docharley.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ok, after my major screw-up last week (I directly modified the sudoers file<br>but failed to change the permissions back to 0444), I flashed to the newest<br>OS upgrade and re-installed all of my applications. Now I need to modify
<br>the sudoers file and plan to do it CORRECTLY this time, e.g. use visudo.<br><br>Now my problem - I can't find visudo anywhere on the N800. Is it available<br>separately or am I just not looking in the right place? Or is there some
<br>other way that doesn't use visudo?<br><br>I've looked in /usr/bin and /bin.<br><br>Thanks much in advance!<br><br>Nick.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>maemo-users mailing list<br>
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