Confused Over Sudo / User Issue.....

[Bob]

** Reply to message from "Eddie O'Connor" <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> on Sat, 8 Feb
2020 00:28:58 -0500

> Hello Ubuntu Community!....bit of a long story here so grab a coffee and
> pull up a chair:
> So...the story goes like this:
> 
> At my corporate site we have Windows computers and mostly Linux servers,
> some of the workers in the IT department are "permitted" to install Ubuntu
> (18.04) on their personal machines if they so choose. One of out
> Supervisors has done this BUT? Somehow hes unable to "sudo" anything! And
> what I thought was just a messed up password situation goes "deeper". When
> he enters his REGULAR account credentials he can do administrative things,
> but no sudo works, ever, regardless of the command. Mind you...his login
> comes from the Windows AD (A-ctive D-irectory) server, along with his
> Outlook email etc...but hes not able to do anything with sudo with this
> laptop. What could possibly be wrong? I had thought it might be something
> with the /etc/passwd files but all looks legit...then we had him change his
> password and the change too effect just fine, he's able to access the
> network and traverse files et al......but STILL he's unable to "sudo" in
> the Terminal. Can anyone shed some light on this issue?....has anyone seen
> this before? Is there something I might have overlooked? (maybe a hidden
> file is missing?...or there's something wrong with a file-path?
> Any help that anyone can give would ne much appreciated!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Eddie G.
> 

Is he in the sudo group?

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Robert Blair


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