sudeors file not affecting user privileges

[Aijaz Baig]

Hello,

Well..thanks for the advice. However even after using a sudo to issue the
command from the users account, I get the same error message as before which
reads:

*sudo: /usr/local/etc/sudoers is mode 0644, should be 0440

*Well..what exactly is mode 0644 and how can I make sure that my users who
have been permitted to excute this command are in mode 0440? What exactly
are these modes and what do they mean?

Will something like *chmod 0440 sudoers* work to solve this issue? I am a
bit wary of experimenting with this so Id rather ask before doing it?

Hope to hear from you guys

Best Regards,
Aijaz Baig
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:31 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Monday 07 April 2008 09:54:24 am Aijaz Baig wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like 'normal users' to be able to issue the shutdown command.
> For
> > that reason I modified the 'sudoers' file and I uncommented the last
> line
> > which now reads:* *
> > *%users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now*
> >
> > However that didn't work. Then I thought
> > maybe the users above refer to some user defined group called 'users. So
> I
> > first created a group called 'users' and added 'masud' (one of my users)
> to
> > that group. Still No luck..
> >
> > Then I read a bit about how does one actually add stuff to that file and
> > added(appended) the following to the file:* masud ALL=/sbin/shutdown -h
> > now*
> >
> > Well..nothing yet..I always log in as as 'masud' and try to see if
> shutdown
> > works (by issuing *shutdown -h now* from his account) and I get
> > */sbin/shutdown:
> > Permission denied
> > *
> > Well..How do I go about it...
> >
> > Please do let me know.
> >
> > Hope to hear from you soon,
>
> You need to use 'sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now'.  Sudoers is used by sudo and
> you
> have to use sudo to invoke the command for sudeors to have an effect.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>