(username) is not in the sudoers file.

[James Mcphee]

visudo has the advantage of doing a sudo check on the editted file before
overwriting the existing one, so if you typo it, you didn't just completely
bork yourself.  In practice, I find myself sed'ing /etc/sudoers a lot,
which wouldn't have this protection.  Be sure to crush cache if you choose
to edit the files without visudo.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What he said :-)
>> On Jun 18, 2012 6:16 PM, "JD Austin" <jd at 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 at 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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