not in the sudoers file

[frankje]

Hello,

I tried to use the command sudo but I get the line: Frank is not in the sudoers file.

I don't know how to solve this because I'm new to Fedora.


Thanks in advance, Frank

[lazlow]

Generally, FC does not use sudo (it can be used). Usually you become root with su - (su space dash) and it will ask for root password.

[funknor]

You need to edit the /etc/sudoers file. It should have a section like this:

## Next comes the main part: which users can run what software on 
## which machines (the sudoers file can be shared between multiple
## systems).
## Syntax:
##
##      user    MACHINE=COMMANDS
##
## The COMMANDS section may have other options added to it.
##
## Allow root to run any commands anywhere 
root    ALL=(ALL)       ALL
yourusername ALL=(ALL) ALL

[spamllama2000]

Hey Frank,

You just have to edit the sudoers file. its in the /etc directory, but you'll have to either log in as root or use su - to open/save the file. You'll just need to add your ID into the sudoers file.

Thanks,
Derrick

[daverj]

If you are going to be doing a lot of sudo stuff, it would probably be easier to make yourself part of the wheel group and then uncommenting the line is /etc/sudoers that gives full access to wheel. Doing it that way is easier than maintaining lists of users.

davidj