On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:19:24 -0600 SternData <subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com> wrote:
On 02/09/2016 07:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a strange issue: my machine was updated via cron last noght. I rebooted this
morning and several attempts, including rebooting into the older kernel do not seem to
work in granting me sudo access.
>
> ~$ sudo dnf update
> [sudo] password for maitra:
> maitra is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
>
> The password is correct because otherwise I would get the notificaiton that it is
not so so that is not the issue.
>
> Short of reinstalling, how do I get around this? Note that I do not have root
account, so I am not sure about what to do.
>
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan
>
The error explains it:
maitra is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
It does?
run visudo
is "wheel" enabled for sudo and is maitra in the wheel group?
But I seem to have lost sudo privileges after the update. How do I run visudo without
being a superuser? I do not appear to have access to /etc/sudoers as a result.
Ranjan
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