[SOLVED] fedora: use sudo command

[melrokz]

I am a Ubuntu user for more than a year, and I have recently installed fedora also (multi-boot).
I've tried sudo but always gives this error:
'user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.'
I then used 'new login' to login as root and tried 'visudo' to edit the sudoers file.
Please tell me how to edit this file and how to save it as it opens for editing in the terminal.

[taurus]

With Fedora, you have a password for root (created when you installed it) so if you need to become root, just open a terminal and run

su -
<Enter root password>

[__Ryan__]

I have a writeup on that here (http://www.wiredrevolution.com/commands/submit-commands-as-root-with-sudo):

[LowSky]

I like how you included the commmand for running as another user for sudo, very helpfull for people who want to use multiple accounts with no sudo access.

[melrokz]

How to use the editor that opens the sudoers file when we type visudo?

[__Ryan__]

The editor is nano. Just type in the changes and press Ctrl+x to exit and save the changes.

[sisco311]

you can change the default editor:

kde:
VISUAL=kate visudo
gnome:
VISUAL=gedit visudo
xfce:
VISUAL=mousepad visudo

terminal:
EDITOR=nano visudo
in nano press Ctrl+o Enter to save the file and Ctrl+x to exit.