On 02/09/2016 08:29 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:19:24 -0600 SternData <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > You'll need to find that scrap of paper on which you wrote the password for "root" and put away someplace safe. :-) -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
