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

[Mark]

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/Bec...aa7b51412d


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