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