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when I trying a text in terminal is"$ sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst or $ gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst " then met a error "user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

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when I trying a text in terminal is"$ sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst or $ gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst " then met a error "user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported"

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collinp (collinp) said : 		#1

Are you logged in under another account besides the one created at install time? If so, that would create this error.

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#2

You could try to login using the recovery mode and try the command below. This will add your username to the admin group.

adduser mita admin

Once finished, reboot and login normally using your username then retry the command you stated above.

shutdown -r now

*Change mita to your configured username*

HTH.

Regards,

Ian

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mita (mitavinhuni) said : 		#3

help me, when I do"mita@mita-desktop:~$ sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
[sudo] password for mita: " in terminal then mita is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
mita@mita-desktop:~$