how do I enable sudo?

[Don Carlile]

I generally just su to my admin account and sudo from there.  If you  
want to add your regular account to sudoers, you can find out how to  
do that by using man sudoers.

Regards,
Don Carlile

On Oct 27, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Gregg Dinse wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For years my main account was an admin account and I could use  
> sudo.  A few months ago, I decided to try to be a little more  
> secure.  I created a special admin account and then I made my main  
> account an ordinary user (i.e. non-admin) account.  I just tried to  
> use sudo today (from my ordinary user account) and realized that I  
> could not do it.
>
> Can sudo be executed from an ordinary user account?  If so, how do  
> I do it?
>
> When I try to use sudo, it asks for my password (as expected), but  
> after I provide the password, it says I am not in the sudoers  
> file.  If it's possible, how do I add my ordinary user account name  
> to the sudoers file?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
>
> Gregg
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