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What does SU sorry mean?
It either means you’re typing your password incorrectly, or you’re not allowed to sudo su. I think it’s the first issue though, that what it usually says when you enter the wrong password.
Where does sudo report incidents?
When an unauthorized user attempts to sudo, sudo sends a mail to the root user reporting the attempt. If you were to log in as root and type the “mail” command, you should see every report. Of course you can also just read the file mails to root are typically saved to: cat /var/spool/mail/root.
How do I edit sudoers D files?
We can configure who can use sudo commands by editing the /etc/sudoers file, or by adding configuration to the /etc/sudoers. d directory. To edit the sudoers file, we should always use the visudo command. This uses your default editor to edit the sudoers configuration.
What is sudoers D file?
The sudo command allows non root users to run commands that would normally require super user privileges, while the sudoers file instructs the system how to handle the sudo command.
Is the sudo command not in the sudoers file?
Not the ‘sudo’ command. The key bit, being there is no error, and that the uid=0 (root) starts the output. All this proves is that you are in the /etc/sudoers file, and that ‘Logic’ has issues.
Why is my sudoers.local file not working?
The interesting thing is about the name of the newly added file. Initially, I named the file as sudoers.local, the file never got effective; then I renamed the file as customize, it got effective immediate. The file name sudoers.customize doesn’t work either. It seems any file name containing sudoers doesn’t work.
Why is my username not in the sudo file?
A broken sudo may be caused by any of the following: A user should not have been removed from the sudo or admin group. The /etc/sudoers file was altered to prevent users in sudo or admin group from elevating their privileges to that of root using sudo command.
Why does sudoers.customize not work on CentOS?
The file name sudoers.customize doesn’t work either. It seems any file name containing sudoers doesn’t work. Someone know the reason? In all three cases, the file has the proper permission -r–r—–. The OS is 64 bits CentOS 6.5.