How do I add myself into the sudoers group? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add a user to the “sudo” group?
I've added myself back into the admin's group I think, by following this.
But I still can't do commands like:
sudo aptitude update
I get the message
oshirowanen is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
How do I add myself into the sudoers group now that I am in the admin group?
Login as root or su
to get root prompt
type visudo
an editor will open find a line says
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
add one with your username below that
user ALL=(ALL) ALL
Type ctrl+x
Type Y
to the prompt
If you're in the admin
group (or the sudo
group starting with Ubuntu 12.04) but that group isn't configured in /etc/sudoers
to be able to run commands as root with sudo
, you can fix that problem the same way you'd fix a broken sudoers
file:
pkexec visudo
Then just edit the sudoers
file to add whatever entries you need. In particular:
-
Ubuntu systems before 12.04, or those that were upgraded from a version before 12.04, should have this:
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
-
Ubuntu 12.04 and later should have this (even if they also have the above lines because they were upgraded from an earlier release):
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
This pkexec
method works (on desktop systems) because Ubuntu systems with a GUI installed have two separate mechanisms for administrators to perform actions as root
: sudo
, and PolicyKit.
See this question about a different but similar problem, if you're curious and want more information:
- How to modify an invalid /etc/sudoers file? It throws an error and it's not allowing me to edit again to fix it