Section 1, About sudo: Subsection: Granting permissions 1. End of paragraph 2: "you can even fine-tune the permissions based on the location where the user is at: if he is logged on from the system itself or" Suggested more concise version: "you can even fine-tune the permissions based on the user's location: logged on from the system itself, or" Subsection: Configuring sudo 2. Suggestion: After the first paragraph in this subsection, repeat the warning that "users should not use any other editor except visudo to edit /etc/sudoers", inside of a "Warning:" block. Subsection: About this guide 3. Suggestion: Refer readers to `man sudo` or other reference pages for more info on sudo, at the end of the paragraph. Section 2, sudoers syntax: Subsection: Basic syntax 4. Paragraph after code listing 2.2: "emerge can be manipulated to change the live file system in the user his advantage." Corrected version: "emerge can be manipulated to change the live file system to the user's advantage." 5. (The paragraph right after code listing 2.5:) "The password that sudo requires is the user his own password." Grammar-corrected version: "The password that sudo requires is the user's own password." Subsection: Using aliases 6. End of the paragraph after code listing 2.9: "a group of administrators who can change users their password - but not roots!" Corrected version: "a group of administrators who can change the password of any user, except root!" 7. Caption of code listing 2.15: "Requiring the root password instead of the user his password" Corrected: "Requiring the root password instead of the user's password" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Thanks; I've fixed most stuff. I didn't use a warning box though, I personally do not like to use those boxes unless they are temporary (for instance due to a bug that isn't fixed yet but will become fixed soonish).
I have the same issue here. When I want to sudo, i got 'sudo: uid XXXX does not exist in the passwd file!', which is indeed correct. I'm using ldap for user managment but it suddendly stops working when I updated sudo.
oh god, this was not the good bug report! Please excuse me.
