My Account not in SUDO access list

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Thu Jan 3 06:54:26 UTC 2008


Wayne Martin wrote:
> How do I add my account to the sudo access list?
> This is a new server with a new install and I am trying to get things
> setup for the first time.

Reboot your machine and in the Grub menu select recovery mode. Then you 
are logged in as root. Use the command

nano /etc/group

and search for the line starting with "admin". Add your login name to the 
end of the line. If there is a user name already, use a comma to separate 
the login names.


Nils




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