Hi,

I'm having trouble getting sudo working correctly on my Ubuntu 7.10 linode.

If I log in as my non-root user and try something like:

sudo nano

I'm prompted for my root password which I enter, and then I'm simply returned to the prompt again (whereas I'd expect nano to open).

To troubleshoot, this is what I then did:

By default there didn't seem to be an admin group, so I added one as root:

addgroup --system admin

I then added my user to the admin group.

useradd -g myusername admin

But sudo still behaves in the same way.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks.

1) sudo wants your user's password, not root's password.

2) is you user listed in /etc/sudoers? use visudo to edit. (for more info: man sudoers)

Thanks aaron.

Adding my username to the /etc/sudoers file worked a treat.

Thanks.