ok, so I corrupted sudoers and sudo gainroot fails. with
>>> SUDOERS file: parse error line 22 <<<
>>> SUDOERS file: parse error line 23 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 22

gainroot is the trimmed down version w/o the check for r & d.

The lines effected are NOT the lines that allow gainroot.

sshd is intsalled.

Brick? or do I have options? Bricks not a problem. I can redo everything with much less hunt and peck. I just want to know what my options are.

-Jason