[help]Unable to elevate permissions

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MistSaber
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[help]Unable to elevate permissions

Post by MistSaber » 2021/06/11 18:10:12

When an ordinary user promotes root user,Prompt that the user is not in the sudoers folder.
When editing this file with the su command,Prompt Identify faults.
so No matter what I do, I can’t elevate permissions
Seeking a solution.
thanks

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TrevorH
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Re: [help]Unable to elevate permissions

Post by TrevorH » 2021/06/11 18:41:03

The correct utility to use to edit the sudoers file is the visudo command. You will need to be root to run this.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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