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mtubarch

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Registered: 2023-02-16

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[SOLVED] "unprivileged user" is not in the sudoers file

After installation I created an unprivileged user:
$ useradd -m -G wheel,sys -s /bin/bash [unprivileged user]
After login I tried
$ sudo pacman -Syu
but I got this message:
[unprivileged user] is not in the sudoers file.
Did I do something wrong during installation?
If so, where in the Wiki can I find the instructions?
Thank you very much in advance.

Last edited by mtubarch (2023-02-18 16:57:55)

3beb6e7c46a615a

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Re: [SOLVED] "unprivileged user" is not in the sudoers file

sudo doesn't allow any user to use sudo in its default configuration; you need to explicitly configure sudo to allow access for the user account or for the wheel group.   See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sudo#Example_entries

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Re: [SOLVED] "unprivileged user" is not in the sudoers file

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adventurer

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Re: [SOLVED] "unprivileged user" is not in the sudoers file

After installation I created an unprivileged user:
$ useradd -m -G wheel,sys -s /bin/bash [unprivileged user]
After login I tried
$ sudo pacman -Syu
but I got this message:
[unprivileged user] is not in the sudoers file.
Did I do something wrong during installation?
If so, where in the Wiki can I find the instructions?
Thank you very much in advance.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_ … management

And it has to be done as root not as user as you've obviously tried to do.

mtubarch

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From: Italy

Registered: 2023-02-16

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] "unprivileged user" is not in the sudoers file

OK, I am going to try, as root,
$ EDITOR=nano visudo
$ visudo
and I will uncomment under the string «uncomment to allow members of group wheel…»

adventurer

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Re: [SOLVED] "unprivileged user" is not in the sudoers file

OK, I am going to try, as root,
$ EDITOR=nano visudo
$ visudo
and I will uncomment under the string «uncomment to allow members of group wheel…»

Everything is said on that wiki site:

Execute

su

and

# gpasswd -a your_user wheel

logoff and login again, and everything should work.