Bug 101189 – gross grammar and spelling mistakes in the sudo guide

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Leung Ki Chi 2005-08-03 05:03:10 UTC]

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:

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-08-04 01:09:17 UTC]

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).

[Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2005-09-12 14:22:09 UTC]

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.

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2005-09-12 14:23:52 UTC]

oh god, this was not the good bug report! Please excuse me.