Sudo

Enable sudo for a user

If you receive the message: "'HDA_username' is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."

Command Line Edit

• Login as root

bash code
​su​

• Copy and Paste:

bash code
​echo 'loginname ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers​

• Where loginname is your user account.

Use 'ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' if you don't want to be prompted a password. If you are prompted for a password with 'sudo' it is the user password, not root.

Manual Edit of Sudoers File

• Login as root
• Run: visudo
• Find a line that says

          root    ALL=(ALL)       ALL

• Add another line after that by typing 'o' an entering

          username    ALL=(ALL)       ALL

• But use your user name instead of username above