not able to use sudo

Carunkumar · 12-15-2006, 01:37 AM

When I type

sudo command

and enter the password, the following line gets displayed:

username not in subdoers file. This incident will be reported.

the command doesn't get executed.

Please help.

jschiwal · 12-15-2006, 02:49 AM

Use the "visudo" command as root to edit the sudoers file. First make yourself a member of the wheel group.
The sudoers file is well commented and all you will have to do is remove the comment before a line that lets members of the wheel group use sudo.
change the line:

Code:

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL

to

%wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL

If you are unfamiliar with "vi", all you need to do is first use the cursor keys to move to the start of the line and press the 'x' key twice to delete the "# " characters. Then press ":wq" to save and quit vi.

Carunkumar · 12-17-2006, 02:29 PM

thanks a lot !

suhaib · 12-20-2006, 04:05 PM

This was also useful for me to. However after a restart, it was commented out again? Did I not save and exit correctly or could've an update over-ridden the edit?

EDIT: I jus used ZZ. For some reason :q doesn't quit?