linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] debian 6

Scott

Thanks for your reply, I will try that later, but Last night I discovered
whilst in the terminal window that I could change to root by issuing su
carriage return, root password, I then completed the install.

Another thing learnt with Linux.

Anyway once again thanks for your help.

Alan

-------Original Message-------

From: Scott
Date: 13/06/2012 04:03:31
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] debian 6

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 07:43:58PM -0000, Alan wrote:
> hi group
>
>
> i have installed debian 6 on my thin client, and i log in as my user name
and password.
>
> i need to run in terminal window the following command....
>
> sudo make install
>
> i get prompted for my password, i enter my user password and am told that
i am not in the sudouser file?????????
>

My guess is that you're used to Ubuntu. Debian (as well as a few other
systems), do it somewhat differently. When you did your install, I
would guess that you created a root user. You might have then created a
second user. This user doesn't automatically get sudo privilege.

You will have to su to root, then edit the /etc/sudoers file. I'm not
sure how Debian does it by default. Many systems have a line, commented
out, that will give all privileges to member of the wheel group, Then,
you can uncomment that line, (by removing the # in front of it) and
adding your username to wheel like so

usermod -G wheel -a john

(If your username was john.)

This is assuming that Debian has that line in its /etc/sudoers file and
that a wheel group exists. It may be that they have a group sudoers, or
admin (which is what I think Ubuntu uses) that has a similar line.

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