James Hawkins wrote:
If the user is not in the /etc/sudoers configuration file, it just complains you're not in the configuration and asks for the root password.
That is apparently distro-specific, as the last time I used sudo on my Slackware 10.2 box (a few months ago), as well as on my roommate's RH9 box, it wouldnt allow sudo period unless /etc/sudoers was configged for your user.
Tom