wierd sudo problem?

[Tim Jackson]

sudo will act that way when the user is not in the admin group
/etc/sudoers defaults to allow access to admin group


Matt Price wrote:

>hi there,
>
>one of my students has done somehting wierd on his ubuntu system --
>which I belive is properly instlaled, but can't be entirely sure! --,
>and now the "sudo" command doesn't work.  so e.g., if I type:
>
>echo "hello"
>
>that works; if on the other hand I type:
>
>sudo echo "hello"
>
>I am asked for my password, but then just returned to the command line
>with no action having been taken.  Since there's no root access on the
>machine, I can't just login and explore what's going on, so I'm pretty
>much at a loss.  Is there anything that might be done in this
>instance?  ANyone have any idea what's going on?  I've never seen
>sudo act this way before, 
>
>thanks,
>
>matt
>
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