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User not in sudoers

P Permission Critical

🔴 Error Message

User is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

📖 What This Means

User account lacks sudo privileges.

🔧 Step-by-Step Fix

  1. Boot recovery mode
  2. Add user: usermod -aG sudo username
  3. Or edit: visudo
  4. Add: username ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

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