sudo and all admin accounts disabled?

[Jordan Miller]

Thank you to everyone in this thread. It works flawlessly now, no  
reinstall required. Just thought I'd write back to tie up loose ends.  
Thanks again!

Jordan



On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:25 AM, Michael R. Head wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 20:48 -0500, Jordan Miller wrote:
>> we have the latest ubuntu installed. everything was working fine. all
>> of a sudden, we have no superuser access. all admin accounts that
>> were previously working fine now have no ability to run sudo or  
>> sudo -
>> s with the error that these usernames are not in the sudoers file.
>> However, I know they were all admin accounts when they were setup. I
>> know this is not simply someone taking away my privileges because I
>> setup all admin accounts and have checked each one and they are all
>> not allowed to do a sudo or a sudo -s.
>>
>> do i need to do a reinstall? Please advise.
>
> No, though should be recoverable. As Schalken said, you'll need to  
> boot
> to recovery mode. If you don't see that selection a few moments after
> you turn on your computer, you should at least see a line that says
> "Press ESC for boot menu". Press escape and you'll see the menu. There
> should be at least one entry that has (recovery mode) mentioned.  
> Select
> that entry and press return. In a few moments, you'll have a root  
> prompt
> from which you can manually edit /etc/sudoers, say with the nano
> program:
> # EDITOR=nano sudo visudo
> double check that you have this line in the file:
> %admin  ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> If it's there, already, you may want to simply add your user  
> account on
> a new line, for example:
> burner ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> mike
>
>> thanks,
>> Jordan
>>
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