What i am trying to achieve is; when executing

# sudo make install

Password:*********

this password entered is root password.

it gives is error

Sorry, try again.

but when i do a su - and then gave the same root password. I am able to switch account to user.

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Am am trying to add my account to sudoers file. It should be easy i think.

Regards,
Vijay Shanker Dubey
Ph: +91-9818311884

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:

At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:00:27 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:

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> Hello guys;
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> I am not able to use sudo command on my just installed centos5.3
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> But i know i am using right password to root.
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> Is this is by default not enabled; if so, what to do.

You don't use root's password, you use your own password.

This assumes you have an entry in /etc/sudoers for your account.

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> Regards,
> Vijay Shanker Dubey
> Ph: +91-9818311884
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