user not in sudoers

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Todd Edwards
<tedwards at mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 13:50 -0700, Johan Scheepers wrote:
>> On 04/13/2011 10:23 PM, Todd Edwards wrote:
>> > Edit the file /etc/sudoers and add yourself there. Although deemed a
>> I would if the system will allow me. Tried sudo gedit /etc/sudoers
>> Got xxxx not in sudoers and will be reported
>> > security risk by the Ubuntu community you can also change the root
>> Tried that to according to man sudo_root.
>> Same reply from system
>
> The user account that you created at installation should be in the
> sudoer's file by default. I assume that you're on a user account that
> you created at a later point in time?
>
> <SNIP>
>
> -- Todd
>

In fact, as default, any "admin" account has the same sudo privilege.

>From /etc/sudoers:
...
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
...

-- 
Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Platform Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux - Ubuntu