Re: Sudo

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

Because in Debian you're probably not mentioned in /etc/sudoers.  If 
your user account were frank, going to root using su you could do 
something like:
echo 'frank ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >>/etc/sudoers <enter>.
then type exit to get back to the frank account and type:
sudo -H -i <enter> and see what happens.

When you installed LinuMint I'm going to make a wag here and figure you 
didn't put a password in for root and because of that LinuMint put your 
user account in /etc/sudoers as part of its installation routine.

On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, Frank Jones wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 12:15:01
> From: Frank Jones <sandyman45@sky.com>
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Sudo
> Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 16:33:09 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> 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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