Actually, I believe you need to use visudo as root to edit that file.
Also, if you are still running Knoppix, you probably have an actual root
you can log into though I could be wrong on that as I have not used Knoppix
in years.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
> What he said :-)
> On Jun 18, 2012 6:16 PM, "JD Austin" <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
>
>> That would work.
>> Alternately add yourself to the wheel group and uncomment that line in
>> the /etc/sudoers file.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:45 PM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When I tried to use sudo, I saw this message:
>>>
>>> (username) is not in the sudoers file
>>>
>>> Searching the 'net for a solution, I found that perhaps I can just
>>> edit /etc/sudoer to add this line:
>>>
>>> joe ALL=(ALL) ALL
>>>
>>> to get sudo to work. Is that correct or ill advised?
>>>
>>>
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