Re: [PLUG] Adding admin account back to sudoers

I usually manually edit the /etc/sudoers files to allow the sudo group if its not already allowed and then I add the necessary accounts to the sudo group.

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From: "Eric H. Johnson" <ejohnson@camalytics.com>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 5:35:15 PM
Subject: [PLUG] Adding admin account back to sudoers

Hi all,

This happened to me the last time I ported accounts to a new machine, and I cannot figure out what I did to fix it. Both the old and new machines are running Ubuntu 16.04. After porting all of the user accounts to the new computer, I lost the use of sudo in the administrator account. If I try to use sudo, I get the error that the account is not in sudoers. I booted to recovery mode, mounted the drive read/write, and tried:

adduser administrator sudo

Which said “administrator is already a member of the sudo group”.

I checked /etc/sudoers, and it agrees with what my source (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/fixsudo) says it should say.

Another source said to try:

sudo usermod –a –G sudo administrator

The command ran without error, but did not fix the problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Eric

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