Solved su Not Taking in visudoers

[daBee]

I've entered a user for sudoers:

alex    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Unfortunately it replies with Sorry upon trying su.

Is this the right syntax? Any insight appreciated.

 

[tobik@]

Yes, but su != sudo. They are two distinct programs and su does not know about/read sudoers.

If you did something wrong in sudoers, you would get a message like this with sudo instead of Sorry:

alex is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

 

[SirDice]

As tobik said, su(1) and sudo(8) are two different things, one has nothing to do with the other. Only users in the wheel group are allowed to su(1).