[Linux-disciples] Sudoer

[Jason Smith]

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On May 31, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:28:45PM -0400, Jason Smith wrote:
>>  In my sudoer file at /etc/sudoer it lists the group admins. Rather
>> than add my additional user, I went to my /et/group file and added my
>> new user to the admins group. This procedure doesn't seem to solve my
>> problem. What am I missing that is terribly obvious??
>
> Well, adding directly to /etc/groups is probably not the
> best way to do it. I mean, I think that will work, but there
> are always little things one needs to do that trip me up.
> Depending on your Linux variant, you need to do either
>

So, is it generally a bad idea to modify these text files directly??  
How do you know which you can and which you can't??
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