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Development Tools Console Foundations Users and Permissions File Ownership

Posted by Nathan LaBrake
Nathan LaBrake
24,088 Points

Why does it keep saying "mike is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." i cannot follow along.

It comes up with this error any time I write a sudo command when logged in as mike. It doesn't do it for treehouse. I checked online for fixes but they are not working.

2 Answers

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

not every user is allowed to use sudo. If you need to switch to user treehouse then just switch user.

su - treehouse

Robert Cunningham
Robert Cunningham
7,841 Points
Robert Cunningham
Robert Cunningham
7,841 Points

I was having the same problem. I ended up changing back the permissions to 777 from user mike and then I logged on as user treehouse to change the owner back to treehouse. Once the owner was changed, I updated the permissions back to where they should be.

Harish Yerra
Harish Yerra
10,031 Points

Thanks! That worked for me....