On 02/09/2016 08:29 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:19:24 -0600 SternData <subscribed-li...@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
> 

You'll need to find that scrap of paper on which you wrote the password
for "root" and put away someplace safe. :-)




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