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I never had an issue with authentication. My issue was a typo in sudoers (I allowed a user to view syslog, iirc, and had a semicolon instead of a colon) that pr

by efreak 6y ago

I never had an issue with authentication. My issue was a typo in sudoers (I allowed a user to view syslog, iirc, and had a semicolon instead of a colon) that prevented me from using sudo, as only my primary user was allowed to log in via ssh. Fortunately cloud vps still has vnc login, and I actually had a root password. Now I use a root shell to edit sudoers, so I can test it before dropping root.

Symbiote 6y ago
You should use "visudo", which opens the file in the default editor, then validates it before saving.
- pnutjam 6y ago
  if you edit outside of visudo, you can run visudo -cf <filename>. example: visudo -cf /etc/sudoers visudoe -cf /etc/sudoers.d/extra
- pbhjpbhj 6y ago
  But make sure to change the default editor to something sane first. (* ducks *) :q!dammitwtf
  - bigbizisverywyz 6y ago
    +1 to that! I like nano, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.