[lug] sudoers Failure Q

Stephen Queen svqueen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 13:47:47 MDT 2017


Just a quick stab, once the user was added to the wheel group, did you log
out in then back in? /etc/group is only processed at login.

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:30 PM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've gone ahead and installed Fedora 25 (KDE spin) since my F23 home is
> gone and I needed F25 upgrade anyway. However, I seem to have run into an
> sudo bug. My user is in wheel group, and sudoers file allows ALL for
> %wheel. The user was set as administrator during install. I can "su -" and
> become root, but no matter what, any sudo from my user results in this:
> myname is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
>
> This is absolutely wrong...the user is in wheel, the wildcard %wheel
> should allow this. Is there a known Fedora 25 install bug for this, or some
> trick needed to authorize sudo beyond wheel membership in F25 which was not
> required in F23? FYI, permissions on "/usr/bin/sudo" are:
> ---s--x--x. 1 root root 147360 Jun  1 05:11 /usr/bin/sudo*
>
> Thanks!
>
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