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

User is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. CentOS - Printable Version

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User is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. CentOS - Mark - 07-07-2014

You will get the error message
%username% is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

If you try to escalate your user account to root using a command similar to sudo -i

CentOS actually have a good wiki article on how to become root here: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot#head-5a98c43bd135904d720095ff461d52aa7b51412d

Steps

Escalate / switch user to root

Code:
su - root

Edit sudoers file

Code:
nano /etc/sudoers

At the bottom add

Code:
# Allow user accounts to sudo

Mark    ALL=(ALL)       ALL

ctrl + o then ctrl + x

Log out then back in