On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:54:59 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 3/17/20 1:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:37:07 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> 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