Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition

Using sudo

Now that you know how to set sudo permissions, let’s see how to actually use it. First, let’s tell sudo that your account has permission to run any command. (You should have root access on your test machine, at least, so this won’t be a security issue.)

The easy way to accomplish this is to uncomment the sudoers entry allowing wheel members access to all commands.

%wheel ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL

As a user in wheel, check your sudo permissions.

$ sudo -l Password: Matching Defaults entries for mwlucas on this host: env_keep+="DESTDIR DISTDIR EDITOR FETCH_CMD FLAVOR FTPMODE GROUP MAKE", env_keep+="MAKECONF MULTI_PACKAGES NOMAN OKAY_FILES OWNER PKG_CACHE", env_keep+="PKG_DBDIR PKG_DESTDIR PKG_PATH PKG_TMPDIR PORTSDIR", env_keep+="RELEASEDIR ...