On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:35 AM, vijay shanker <vijay.shad at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks guys, > > I have done my changes in the sudoers file. > > what i did is ; added a group with same access as root. > > how i am able to use sudo. but there is a problem. > > my machine is responding very slow for the sudo. It takes almost 3 > minutes to open a small file with command > > sudo vim filename.conf > > i don't think this might be because of the changes. But you can > explain this situation to me. > > To edit sudoers file I used visudo. > > and thanks Majian for that command in vi editor. it was great. 3 minutes is a typical network timeout. Sounds like you don't have dns setup properly and/or nis/winbind or ldap if you use those. -Ross