how do I enable sudo?

[Gregg Dinse]

Hi Don,

Thanks for the help.  I had done a "man sudo" but I did not even  
think to do a "man sudoers".  Unfortunately, I am not a very  
sophisticated UNIX user, I guess, because both of these man files  
were fairly long and complicated looking, and I could not easily see  
how to add my ordinary account to the sudoers file.

I did try your approach of su'ing to my admin account and then  
sudo'ing from there.  I had not thought of that.  It worked just  
fine.  Thanks for the help.  I appreciate it.

Gregg

On 27 Oct 2006, at 11:06 AM, Don Carlile wrote:

> 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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