Basic Linux Permissions part 6: sudo and sudoers

Demonstration of how to give users permissions to execute commands as sudo in a Linux operating system. Includes example of allowing user to execute a selected set of commands as root. Commands/files: sudo, /etc/sudoers, /etc/sudoers.d, adduser, /etc/group. Created by Steven Gordon on 7 March 2012 at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand.

[amarchhabra]

Great video - concise and clear - exactly what I was looking for on how to give specific users access to execute a subset of commands requiring privileged access. Thanks for the great content!

[bs]

I learn something new. For example I Learned that a user need to belong to a specific group that is already defined in sudoers file.
And depends on the Commands that is allowed for that group the user can execute the commands.

[krknn]

Very Informative ..Thank you very much sir.

[strikermed]

What was the process of recovering the root password? I’m in a class where one of my fellow classmates accidentally set the etc directory to owner read only, with no other permissions. He would like to be able to retrieve his homework, and we tried for an hour to find a way back in….

[algebra]

Cool video. Is it possible to put all users in a predefined group programmatically so that they can via sudo run a specific programm via sudo?

[sunnylucky]

Thank you so much great covering of sudo usage

[scattycat]

thanks for your time and for sharing this, using ubuntu to explain this annoyed me, as centos being RHEL's little sister would have been much more useful... starting with & explaining whoami cmd would have been nice, other than that, very nice.

[avinashkumarable]

A Very handy sudo configuration boss thank u

[Eddynew]

Thank you very much for a very usefull video for Linux beginners!

[akpadji]

I Like your video but I have some problems. On my linux ubuntu the command sudo does'nt work or does not exist anymore. How to restart; or install new one.

Thanks

[medusa]

ON a fresh debian install I am the only user and apparently I am not part of sudoers. How can I edit a file system that requires sudo membership..it's a catch 22 situation leaving you spinning in circles. The installation should automatically make the install sudo and stop all this confusing bog.

[batmandarknite]

Great video.. Thank you so so so so so much..

[GoteKhushiAau]

thank u very very much ... n its really help full ... m glad dat for u only i got d
;-)

[davoidd]

Great video, but just too confusing I just wanted to know how to modify one user to only have access to inconfig and ifup ifdown route commands. Any idea how i'd go about that?