[ubuntu-za] Sudoer file

[Bill Cairns]

Thanks Neil - it works! Pretty painless.

I must confess that I was so frustrated that I sent my message to the group
before doing the obvious Google search. Mea culpa.

Bill


On 18 April 2014 07:44, Neil Oosthuizen <nlsthzn at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Community help file on Sudoers -
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers
>
> Easiest way to add someone to the Sudoers -
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/7477/how-can-i-add-a-new-user-as-sudoer-using-the-command-line
> (basically comes down to: "sudo adduser <username> sudo" (obviously
> doing this from the other accounnt that has sudo already would be
> needed).
>
>
> Neil
>
> On 18 April 2014 09:33, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a small home server (12.04 server) and everything runs well.
> >
> > There are two users registered on the server. The one (bill) I created
> some
> > time after installation. I can log into it with no problems but cannot do
> > any privileged commands using sudo. eg:
> >
> > bill at cairnmarsh:~$ sudo ls
> > [sudo] password for bill:
> > bill is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
> > bill at cairnmarsh:~$
> >
> >
> > What is a sudoers file and how do I get bill onto it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >   Bill
> >
> >
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