Cannot Sudo

[cwillu]

On 8/13/07, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 14:13 -0300, L. Richard Cameron wrote:
> > Whenever I try to "sudo" I get the reply "Administrator is not in the
> > sudoers file. This incident will be reported." The passwords that I
> > used have been changed and the fellow who did it all is not
> > forthcoming  with them (or any help).
>
> Go here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery
>
> Read and follow sections "Lost Password" and "Add User to a Group" (add
> your user to group "admin").

Also, when you have everything fixed up, it's a useful learning
exercise to bring up X and a gnome session from the root prompt by
hand.

I'd be tempted to suggest rebuilding the server anyway:  if he left on
bad terms, and the server has net access (even just outgoing), it'd be
easy enough for him to have left himself a backdoor (cron jobs
spawning an ssh tunnel anyone?)