On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:54:59 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 3/17/20 1:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:37:07 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 3/17/20 11:42 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> I am on F31 and have always used sudo. This morning, after a while, I finally rebooted and am on the 5.5.8-200.fc31.x86_64 kernel. However, I appear to have lost my sudo access. > >>> > >>> I get: that my username "is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." > >>> > >>> Not sure how this happened. How do I get back into sudoers? I am not even sure I, (in fact I think that I do not), have a root account. > >> > >> It's unlikely that you were ever in the sudoers file unless you added it > >> yourself. Normally the user is in the wheel group to make them admin > >> and allowed to use sudo. What does the "id" command show for you? > > > > I did not manually add the user but I have had sudo privileges because I checked the box with regard to administrator privileges while installing long long ago. > > > > I had no idea that id was a command (thanks!) but here is what it says: > > > > uid=1000(username) gid=1000(username) groups=1000(username),7(lp) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 > > Somehow you got dropped from the wheel group. Did you uncheck your > administrator access in the user control panel? In any case, if you > don't have another admin user, you will need to use a live or rescue > boot to add yourself back in to the wheel group. No, I did not uncheck anything (because nothing every came up for me to uncheck). I can get into the rescue. What do I do after that? > Btw, you do have a root account, but it probably doesn't have a > password. "sudo -i" will make you root. I see, but it requires the wheel access that you were mentioning, I guess. Thanks again, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx