On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I followed the setup instructions from > http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/ ... the author is known to me ;) > Assuming that you are in /etc/sudoers!!!! > And then asked for a password. > Which password? My userid or root's? I tried both and after 3 tries got: > me is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported. > removing '/home/me/rpmbuild/BUILD/hipl--main--2.6/hipl-1.0.4' The end user account password is what sudo is looking for ... as noted, it seems you had not configured /etc/sudoers to include you. > So I look at /etc/sudoers and do not understand what I am > suppose to do there. A sample entry which permits a single user machine to do root operations when needed, but to stay in its non-priv'd mode most of the time looks like something as simple as: [herrold at new ~]$ sudo grep herrold /etc/sudoers Password: [here, the end user 'herrold's password] herrold ALL=(ALL) ALL [herrold at new ~]$ ... We need root rights to read /etc/sudoers, or else it would have not been needed except for teaching reasons. > A bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Hope this helps .. I wonder a bit at your description of untarring, ./configure'ing, etc ... that is not part of rpm building from .spec or SRPM. -- Russ herrold