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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu 13.04 - sudo

 

On 05/05/13 21:40, Jon Pilgrim wrote:
I, for my sins have been a devotee of Ubuntu since 8.04.  So I glibly went for the latest rave, 13.04, thinking I can easliy avoid Unity and go for my comfort zone that is Gnome and low and behold I can't do a thing without being told I am not a 'sudoer'. I have never encountered this problem before so I am left wondering if it is pecular to 13.04.
If there is anybody out there who can help me get back control of my machine, I'd be eternally grateful. I have glanced through man(5) sudoers and decided it is all too much for my little brain.  I am tempted to rename ubuntu 13.04 as Catchubuntu 22 as you can't do an sudo without being first an sudo.  If I hadn't installed alongside my 12.10, I would be really quite stuffed.
 
Signed:
Jon L Pilgrim


Hope this helps....

I would check out the /etc/sudoers file usually there is a group "admin" that is allowed to sudo. If that's the case I would try doing id from the command line and check you are in the admin group. If you are not in that group you will probably need to get yourself added to that group. It's possible that the sudoers file has changed in 13.04, I haven't gone that far yet. If so perhaps they have changed the sudoers group to something else.... again add yourself to the appropriate group and you will probably be back in the land of sudo.

Tom.
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