Actually, I believe you need to use visudo as root to edit that file.  Also, if you are still running Knoppix, you probably have an actual root you can log into though I could be wrong on that as I have not used Knoppix in years.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

What he said :-)

On Jun 18, 2012 6:16 PM, "JD Austin" <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
That would work.
Alternately add yourself to the wheel group and uncomment that line in the /etc/sudoers file.


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:45 PM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
When I tried to use sudo, I saw this message:

(username) is not in the sudoers file

Searching the 'net for a solution, I found that perhaps I can just
edit /etc/sudoer to add this line:

joe ALL=(ALL) ALL

to get sudo to work.  Is that correct or ill advised?



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