Fedora - "feek is not in the sudoers file." huh?

Feek · 20 Feb 2011 at 13:35

I've just built a Fedora VM in Parallels but as soon as I try to install Parallels Tools I get the following message. I've never seen this in any *nix system before.

Any ideas?

leigh123linux · 20 Feb 2011 at 13:46

Fedora doesn't use sudo as default so you will need to set it up ( google it ).

The fedora way is to use su

Code:

su
./install

If you need full root use

Code:

su -

Phil99 · 20 Feb 2011 at 13:54

Or run visudo as root and add your username to the appropriate section(s)

Feek · 20 Feb 2011 at 13:59

I'm used to using su - on our unix box at work so I'll just do that, ta.

andrewdodd13 · 20 Feb 2011 at 14:07

Just add a line

feek ALL=(ALL) ALL

into /etc/sudoers.

As root!

brendan · 21 Feb 2011 at 10:06

Usually there is a group on linux boxes which has access to sudo. The easiest is the check what the group is called by doing visudo, checking the group name and adding yourself to the group as root.

It used to be called wheel in ubuntu but has changed to admin recently.

This will add your user to a group:
sudo gpasswd -a username groupname

tripitaka · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:09

Reminded me of this: http://xkcd.com/838/

pingwing · 22 Feb 2011 at 02:26

tripitaka said:
Reminded me of this: http://xkcd.com/838/

All I can think about is how I used to do that to get into the more normal areas of Ubuntu, good old sudo su - to get into the root account...