So I did some digging on the sudo command and I do know the config file is /etc/sudoers

Read the manual for sudoers and found out that I must use visudo to edit the file

I read some of the examples at the bottom of the file and tried entering my own account in following the example.

one of the commands I was trying to allow my account to perform without root login is the mount command

So I tried adding this in (kreid8 /bin/mount ALL)
I then saved & exited the file and logged out of root and tried sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media.

I got an error saying I had to be root in order to do that

But when I use the visudo -l option it shows that I have that privellege.

Did I edit the file incorrectly?

Thanks in advance to all those who reply with help

At a very simplistic level, you can add this to your /etc/sudoers file

user ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /bin/mount

Where "user" is the user name. Additional commands can be added with commas

user ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /bin/mount,/bin/umount

That should get you started anyway!

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Great thanks a lot!!

Using the "user" or "users" mount option in /etc/fstab will also allow a regular user to mount that filesystem.

I had to create another user and allow him to use sudo for my own account (kreid8)

So how would I go about doing that, because I do not want to give root commands to this user
I just want sudo tail and head to work from the new user using my account

Given the example above, and "man sudoers" you should be
able to figure that one out yourself, really ;}

I had a problem with this when I set up my new Debian distro yesterday.
Here's what the bottom part of my sudoers file looks like:

# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
myusername ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL


To get to the file you should always use the command $ visudo

After (carefully) making the changes use ctrl+x then y to leave and when asked what to do type Q and hit enter. This will save the changes you made.

Test sudo with something simple. HTH.