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Ubuntu Unleashed 2014 Edition: Covering 13.10 and 14.04,Ninth Edition
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Ubuntu Unleashed 2014 Edition: Covering 13.10 and 14.04,Ninth Edition

by Matthew Helmke, Andrew Hudson, Paul Hudson
November 2013
Beginner
900 pages
56h 6m
English
Sams
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Understanding and Fixing sudo

Most Ubuntu users never have a problem here, but sometimes, people who like to experiment break things, especially while learning. This section exists to help you first understand more completely how sudo works and also how to restore sudo access to a specific user when, for some reason, it has ceased to function for that user.

Note

You will usually know a problem has occurred because an error message like this will appear when a user tries to issue a command using sudo:

matthew@seymour:~$ sudo shutdown -h now[sudo] password for matthew:matthew is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Sometimes, you might not even receive an error message, but the command issued simply ...

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