[ubuntu-za] Sudoer file

[Charl Wentzel]

Hi Bill

Simply add your user the the 'adm' group, using the user that can
execute sudo commands:

sudo adduser adm bill

That should do the trick.

PS: I haven't done this recently, but if it doesn't work you may need to
add the user to the 'sudo' group as well

Charl

On 18/04/2014 07:33, Bill Cairns 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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