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From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious sudoers.d error
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:28:52
Message-Id: 20150826232841.GB522@apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Mysterious sudoers.d error by Walter Dnes
1 On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:20:37PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > I've just switched from cdparanoia to cdda2wav, to get track
3 > names/artists. As a regular user, I ran...
4 >
5 > cdda2wav -vall dev=1,0,0 cddb=0 -paranoia -B
6 >
7 > I got a bunch of complaints about insufficient read and write
8 > privileges, but it seems to work OK. I ran the same command as root,
9 > and no error messages.
10
11 What exactly are the error messages? Most likely you just need to be
12 added to the group that has access to CD drives or something like that.
13
14 > So I figured I'd just stick the command into
15 > /etc/sudoers.d and run with root privileges under tightly controlled
16 > conditions. I ran visudo, and appended what would be the 34th line to
17 > /etc/sudoers.d/001 Here were the tentative 32nd/33rd/34th lines...
18 >
19 > waltdnes d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/fusermount -u /home/waltdnes/tablet
20 > waltdnes d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/simple-mtpfs -o allow_other /home/waltdnes/tablet
21 > waltdnes d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdda2wav -vall dev=1,0,0 cddb=0 -paranoia -B
22 >
23 > When I attempted to exit visudo, I go a not-so-helpfull message...
24 >
25 > "/etc/sudoers.d/001.tmp" 34L, 2078C written
26 > >>> /etc/sudoers.d/001: syntax error near line 34 <<<
27 > What now?
28 >
29 > Like the message says, "What now?". It's currently a moot point
30 > because cdda2wav seems to work OK, notwithstanding the "insufficient
31 > permissions" messages. But if I'm doing something wrong with sudoers,
32 > I'd like to find out what it is now, rather than later when I really
33 > need it.
34
35 Looks like it's the commas. Try:
36
37 waltdnes d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdda2wav -vall dev=1\,0\,0 cddb=0 -paranoia -B
38
39 Alec

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[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Mysterious sudoers.d error Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>