I figured out how to fix it: su visudo all fixed But I would really like to know about the ALLs. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > >> Mike, >> >> Leave your sudoers file alone and add your user to the sudo group >> instead. Much more flexible. >> > Well, I tried but: > > PresarioLapTop1 home # useradd -G sudo bmike1 > useradd: user 'bmike1' already exists > > >