screwed up sudo

[nishtya]

I am running a hd install of kanotix debian. Did update sudo package tonight and my pkg mgr decided to crash.

Result:

nish@ecs:~$ sudo
usage: sudo -K | -L | -V | -h | -k | -l | -v
usage: sudo [-HPSb] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid]
{ -e file [...] | -i | -s | <command> }
nish@ecs:~$

I have uninstalled and reinstalled sudo and nish (me) is in sudoers group. Any ideas? On reinstall I did a message that no sudoers group was found in /etc and it created one for me. Help much appreciated. This is a new one to me and I have to get it back. Thanks!

[champagnemojo]

I'm probably just missing something, but what about the output you showed is wrong? Since you didn't give it any command to run as the super-user it makes sense that it'd be telling you what the valid command options are.

[nishtya]

normally sudo returns a password prompt, no? Or is that just su? (idjot mode here)

The only command I ever gave it was sudo knoppix-installer and I don't want to run that again LOL

[champagnemojo]

By default I think sudo asks for a password. But I thought knoppix and kanotix set the sudoers file up so that you can run sudo without a password. Look in your sudoers file...it probably has NOPASSWD in it.

ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

change it to

ALL = (ALL) ALL

if you want to have to do the password. I think that's right anyways.

[nishtya]

ahhh, that was what was throwing me, maybe. All this distro trying out (and Fedora being so different especially). Maybe I should stop playing with the others...

Really, why do I keep trying out other distros when I am perfectly happy with kanotix ? *rhetorical question*

[champagnemojo]

Really, why do I keep trying out other distros when I am perfectly happy with kanotix ? *rhetorical question*

Because you're curious and want to see what the alternatives are like. Nothing wrong with that...unless that curious tendency bleeds over into one's marriage or something. :P