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hatten

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: Sweden, Borlange

Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 736

Not allowed to use sudo in X (xterm)

From the day i started with arch i haven't been able to launch sudo in X, it works perfectly in the virtual terminals. Su works, and i have used that one until now.

One example of output is yaourts:

Password: 
You are not allowed to launch /usr/bin/pacman with sudo
Please enter root password
Password:

What have i missed?

onguarde

Member

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 144

Re: Not allowed to use sudo in X (xterm)

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo

Have you configured the user settings right?

Try giving full privilledges first.

USER_NAME   ALL=(ALL) ALL

hatten

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: Sweden, Borlange

Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 736

Re: Not allowed to use sudo in X (xterm)

Found the problem, it was a space in the beginning of my

 %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

line, removing it fixed it.