Why am I getting student08 is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reporte
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Why am I getting student08 is not in the sudoers file.
I am in terminal and I am trying to do sudo fdisk -l, when I put in the root password, I get: student08 is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
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the su root worked for me. Thank you Nbiser. I am working from the CompTIA Linux+ Certification book. working on exploring partitions with fdisk. The book asks you to use a terminal window entering sudo fdisk -l and that is where I ran into problem.
the su root worked for me. Thank you Nbiser. I am working from the CompTIA Linux+ Certification book. working on exploring partitions with fdisk. The book asks you to use a terminal window entering sudo fdisk -l and that is where I ran into problem.
Since you are working on the same book....have you completed the lab A-3: formatting a partition with mkfs on page 7-13? This worked fine for me in class, but here at home I am not seeing the lost+found file on my drive2p1.
I thought it was because I didn't create the directory properly, yet when I try to mkdir /mnt/drive2p1 it says'mkdir:cannot create directory '/mnt/drive2p1': file exists. So I don't know where my lost+found entry is....
I'm honestly not sure why this is.....I've always just accepted it.
Sudo is a tool that allows a regular user to temporarily gain root privileges, using his user password. For that to work he needs to be allowed to do that. This permission is set up in the sudoers file, using the command visudo.
There is a good guide how to set up sudo in the arch wiki in case you are interested in the details.
Last edited by joe_2000; 04-17-2013 at 03:43 PM.
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I am in terminal and I am trying to do sudo fdisk -l, when I put in the root password, I get: student08 is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Since you are working on the same book....have you completed the lab A-3: formatting a partition with mkfs on page 7-13? This worked fine for me in class, but here at home I am not seeing the lost+found file on my drive2p1.
I thought it was because I didn't create the directory properly, yet when I try to mkdir /mnt/drive2p1 it says'mkdir:cannot create directory '/mnt/drive2p1': file exists. So I don't know where my lost+found entry is....
Are you using the lab book? I don't have the lab book, I'm just going through the study guide, practicing things as I learn them. You ought to post the problem that you mentioned in a seperate thread because I'm not sure where that could've gone!
Sudo is a tool that allows a regular user to temporarily gain root privileges, using his user password. For that to work he needs to be allowed to do that. This permission is set up in the sudoers file, using the command visudo.
There is a good guide how to set up sudo in the arch wiki in case you are interested in the details.
Thanks for filling me in! I knew about sudo, and what it was used for, I just didn't know why my systems would sometimes say that I wasn't in the sudoers file.
Last edited by Nbiser; 04-17-2013 at 04:27 PM.
Reason: Typo
[...] I just didn't know why my systems would sometimes say that I wasn't in the sudoers file.
The file, /etc/sudoers must be edited, by root, to give individual users (or groups) permission to run specific programs (or "ALL" programs) aliased as some other user (usually "root").
Since this is your own (virtual) system, you could edit that file to give "student08" permission to use sudo.
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Why am I getting student08 is not in the sudoers file.
