Re: Sudo

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 19 March 2016 21:13:14 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:15:01PM +0000, Frank Jones wrote:
> > I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on
> > theterminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint.
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> Possibly you have to add yourself to the sudoers file: it's in
> /etc/sudoers -- best edit it (as root) with visudo.
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> Make sure there is an entry (perhaps there is one) like
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>   %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
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> (that means that users belonging to the sudo group may do everything
> can do; you can refine permissions if you want)
>
> Then add yourself to the sudo group. As root, do
>
>   adduser <yourself> sudo
>
> You'll need to login again for the changes to take effect.

The OP probably didn't install sudo.

Lisi