What Are You Doing Right Now

gjacobse

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Sitting at CareNow now.

Warm hugs... keep us updated when you can.

hobbit666

Trying to work out how to use Linux correctly in terms of users

CentOS7

created a "normal" user called helpdesk but now what to install updates and stuff using yum, then install osTickets
BUT! how to I run the stuff? Tried sudo yum update but got an error

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to work out how to use Linux correctly in terms of users

CentOS7

created a "normal" user called helpdesk but now what to install updates and stuff using yum, then install osTickets
BUT! how to I run the stuff? Tried sudo yum update but got an error

Same as Windows. If you want to do admin tasks you need to be an admin.

So you need to give them root perms. Add them to the wheel group, enable wheel in the sudoers file and use sudo.

wirestyle22

@hobbit666 usermod -aG wheel username

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 usermod -aG wheel username

I always just edit the file

hobbit666

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 usermod -aG wheel username

I always just edit the file

what file?

wirestyle22

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 usermod -aG wheel username

I always just edit the file

what file?

sudoers. I think the command is visudo

or

vi /etc/sudoers

hobbit666

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Add them to the wheel group, enable wheel in the sudoers file and use sudo.

That just sounds rude

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 usermod -aG wheel username

I always just edit the file

what file?

sudoers. I think the command is visudo

or

vi /etc/sudoers

Correct. visudo is the "right" way to do it. So of course I never do.

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller Your hard work has paid off Scott. I was right one time

hobbit666

@wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller

guess as root?

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller

guess as root?

Yes. All admin tasks need root perms. Or else normal users could give themselves admin privs whenever they wanted.

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller

guess as root?

Yes. All admin tasks need root perms. Or else normal users could give themselves admin privs whenever they wanted.

I was replying, but this

hobbit666

ur where the hell do I add my user to that file lol!

scottalanmiller

CentOS is not a sudo by default OS so you have to set it up here. CentOS assumes that you will use root directly or will set up whatever security you plan to use. NTG scripts this to make it fast and easy along with account creation, key deployment, base packages, etc.

wirestyle22

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

ur where the hell do I add my user to that file lol!

usermod -aG sudo username will add the user to the sudo group

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

ur where the hell do I add my user to that file lol!

You don't. You enable wheel. Scroll down and look. There are two sample lines about wheel. They are commented out. You uncomment one of them, I prefer the one that has "nopassword". Only unfomment one of them.

After that wheel access works.

scottalanmiller

wheel = admin group in Linux

coliver

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Snowing today!

Lucky! It's 28F here this morning, not a cloud in sight. Just cold.

Not to be a Grinch, but snow is the worst. All it does is complicate my life by making my commute even worse and causing a lot of accidents.

Eh people who can't drive cause accidents. Snow just identifies those people. The only time I like snow is if we have enough to go riding.

I live in NJ. No one can drive here. Ask @scottalanmiller

I live in NY... can't decide who is worse: NJ drivers and Massholes

wirestyle22

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Snowing today!

Lucky! It's 28F here this morning, not a cloud in sight. Just cold.

Not to be a Grinch, but snow is the worst. All it does is complicate my life by making my commute even worse and causing a lot of accidents.

Eh people who can't drive cause accidents. Snow just identifies those people. The only time I like snow is if we have enough to go riding.

I live in NJ. No one can drive here. Ask @scottalanmiller

I live in NY... can't decide who is worse: NJ drivers and Massholes

NJ Drivers. I'll save you the processing time