Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Paravmssh

Timestamp:

Apr 25, 2009, 9:57:32 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

meeg

Comment:

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Paravmssh

@@ -22 +22 @@
 root@myParaVM:~# adduser username
 }}}
-where username is preferrably your athena identity
+where username is preferably your athena identity
 this will prompt you for a password and then for some personal information
 that does not matter for our purposes.
-In order to install software, we next need to add ourselves to the sudoers file.
+
+In order to install software, we next need to add ourselves to the sudoers file. If you chose an Ubuntu installation, you can do this by adding your user to the admin group, as follows:
+{{{
+root@myParaVM~# adduser <username> admin
+}}}
+
+If you chose Debian, add yourself to /etc/sudoers:
 {{{
 root@myParaVM~# visudo
 }}}
-this opens /etc/sudoers using vi.
-if you are unfamiliar with original vi, you can type the following sequence of keys (where [enter] and [ctrl] stand for the enter and control keys and username is the username you just added:
+this opens /etc/sudoers using an available text editor (probably nano if you're in Debian).
+
+If nano is used, it should be intuitive - add the following line at the end, save with Ctrl-O, and exit with Ctrl-X:
+{{{
+<username> ALL=(ALL) ALL
+}}}
+
+If you are unfamiliar with original vi, you can type the following sequence of keys (where [enter] and [ctrl] stand for the enter and control keys and username is the username you just added:
 {{{
 20j$a[enter]username[space][space][space][space]ALL=(ALL) ALL[esc]:wq[enter]
 }}}
 <do I actually want it to be username ALL=(ALL) ALL?>
-lastly, we need to start the ssh daemon:
+
+Lastly, we need to start the ssh daemon:
 {{{
 root@myParaVM~# /etc/sbin/sshd
 }}}
+<what distribution is this valid in?>
 
 now open up another local terminal and try to ssh into your VM:
@@ -46 +60 @@
 and check that you can sudo:
 {{{
-username@myParaVM~$ sudo apt-get install emacs (or vim-gnome)
+username@myParaVM~$ sudo -l
 }}}