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evilpistachio

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Registered: 2023-08-23

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[SOLVED] (username) is not in the sudoers file.

Hello this is my first time using a linux distro and I tried installing tor browerser but it says that my only username on this installation is not in the sudoers file which probably means I can't execute sudo commands.

My question is how do I enable myself to use them? Thank you in advance.

Gregors

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From: Freiburg, Germany

Registered: 2018-08-09

Posts: 40  

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Re: [SOLVED] (username) is not in the sudoers file.

I don't use sudo. If I have to do something only root can do I use "su -",

HTH

Gregor

stopAI

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Registered: 2023-04-04

Posts: 131  

Re: [SOLVED] (username) is not in the sudoers file.

Hello.

Once logged in as a user, you can verify whether or not the user belongs to group=sudo using either the id or groups commands. E.g., a user with id=foo should see output from

$ groups

like

foo sudo

If sudo is not present in the output, the user does not belong to that group.

To add an existing user with id=foo to group=sudo:

get root and then run the command:

# adduser foo sudo

After being added to a new group the user must log out and then log back in again for the new group to take effect.

Last edited by stopAI (2023-08-23 16:01:52)

evilpistachio

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Registered: 2023-08-23

Posts: 4  

Re: [SOLVED] (username) is not in the sudoers file.

Thanks for the advice! I managed to find how to get access to root online but when I tried

# adduser foo sudo

it said that adduser command doesn't exist.

Thanks for the advice never the less!

steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

Posts: 343  

Re: [SOLVED] (username) is not in the sudoers file.

adduser command doesn't exist.

Devuan inherits the shadow -> util-linux change to su behavior from upstream Debian as mentioned here, and the same solutions apply.

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evilpistachio

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Registered: 2023-08-23

Posts: 4  

Re: [SOLVED] (username) is not in the sudoers file.

Thanks a ton, I managed to add myself into sudo. Marking as solved.