[ubuntu-za] Sudoer file

[Neil Oosthuizen]

The Community help file on Sudoers - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers

Easiest way to add someone to the Sudoers -
http://askubuntu.com/questions/7477/how-can-i-add-a-new-user-as-sudoer-using-the-command-line
(basically comes down to: "sudo adduser <username> sudo" (obviously
doing this from the other accounnt that has sudo already would be
needed).


Neil

On 18 April 2014 09:33, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a small home server (12.04 server) and everything runs well.
>
> There are two users registered on the server. The one (bill) I created some
> time after installation. I can log into it with no problems but cannot do
> any privileged commands using sudo. eg:
>
> bill at cairnmarsh:~$ sudo ls
> [sudo] password for bill:
> bill is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
> bill at cairnmarsh:~$
>
>
> What is a sudoers file and how do I get bill onto it?
>
> Thanks,
>   Bill
>
>
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