How to fix "'user' is not in sudoers" in CentOS
ObsidianBlade
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February 2012
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I just ran into this issue,and I'm sure I'm not going to be the last person to do so. This is my first tutorial,so I'm hoping I did everything the right way. It's a simple fix,so this is definitely one of the shortest how-to's ever.
First thing (for the way I do it) is to make sure you have nano. If not,log onto the root account and download nano before anything else:
With that,it's time to edit the sudoers file to add yourself to it:
Now,navigate to the area where it says:
And under where it says
place the name of the user that you want to give sudo rights to so that it looks something like this:
ctrl-X to exit,y to agree to save it and enter to save the file with the name as it is and you're done!
First thing (for the way I do it) is to make sure you have nano. If not,log onto the root account and download nano before anything else:
sudo yum install nano
With that,it's time to edit the sudoers file to add yourself to it:
EDITOR=nano visudo
Now,navigate to the area where it says:
## Next comes the main part: which users can run what software on ## which machines (the sudoers file can be shared between multiple ## systems). ## Syntax: ## ## user MACHINE=COMMANDS ## ## The COMMANDS section may have other options added to it. ## ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL ## Allows members of the 'sys' group to run networking,software,## service management apps and more.
And under where it says
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
## Next comes the main part: which users can run what software on ## which machines (the sudoers file can be shared between multiple ## systems). ## Syntax: ## ## user MACHINE=COMMANDS ## ## The COMMANDS section may have other options added to it. ## ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL Chris ALL=(ALL) ALL ## Allows members of the 'sys' group to run networking,## service management apps and more.
