Thread: Edited sudoers, now N800 won't finish booting
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wzzrd is offline wzzrd
2008-03-13 , 21:32
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#20
Originally Posted by LinuxStation View Post
In the beginning I was trying to run a WiFi scanning program that needs to be root in order to display full data, that's how I got into the sudoers problem. I had in fact set up ssh access (using a key pair) from user to root account and it worked, but thought it would be using CPU time to encrypt the data between root and user so I tried the sudoers method. I have now received my N800 back from warranty repair and will have some time to work with it again within the next week.

So you took the 2008 OS factory sudoers and added
user ALL = (ALL) ALL
at the top? I just want to make sure I do it exactly as you did. If I have
user ALL = (ALL) ALL
at top of my sudoers, is there any reason to leave the remaining lines in the sudoers?
To start with the last: yes, the rest of the sudoers file is there with a reason. Leave it there! I cannot stress this enough: do not remove the other lines, just add the one line as the very first. If you remove other lines, you might render the device unbootable.

Second: yes, an ssh connection will put some (minor) burden on the cpu.

Third: Please, if you have important data on your n800, make a backup before toying with your sudoers file: I cannot guarantee that it will not break your os, forcing you to reflash...

Good luck. ;-)