Sudo no longer working after update

Hello.

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sudo command fails to authenticate after an update I did not set a separate root password when setting up but su does log in. i checked the sudoers file and the line that allows users belonging to wheel to run sudo commands was commented out so I uncommented it with visudo but I still cant log in with sudo. I also tried passwd root and re-entering my password and also passwd zany130 and it still can't login

What happens when you try to run sudo? Is it telling you the password is bad or is it some other error?

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yeah that my pass is not correct

opps guess I needed to exit that terminal window and create a new one for the changes I did to take effect but still the line to allow the wheel group to use sudo shouldn't have been commented out right?

Did you type it incorrectly (or cancel input) three times? If so, it will lock. Check faillock in a terminal.

You’ll need to provide more detail about the change you made. While we could guess, it’s not usually effective and will cause frustration.

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It was not working with the right password from the beginning.

this is specifically the line in the sudoers file I was talking about

## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
Wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

it was commented out I was able to uncomment it by doing a su visudo and then after closing that terminal and reopening it worked

This implies what you were entering was not what was expected. For example, different keyboard layout, use of numlock, or just a mistake.

Alternatively,

That’s incorrectly formatted. This is saying that the user “Wheel” should be allowed to run commands. If you want the group “wheel” to be able to run commands then it should be %wheel.

If this was the case from the beginning then sudo would not be working for that user (hence it would be telling you “Sorry, try again.”).

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Exactly that’s what was happening. How i copied the sudoers file is how i found it i just uncommented that line

this is how I found it


## sudoers file.
##
## This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
## Failure to use 'visudo' may result in syntax or file permission errors
## that prevent sudo from running.
##
## See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
##

##
## Host alias specification
##
## Groups of machines. These may include host names (optionally with wildcards),
## IP addresses, network numbers or netgroups.
# Host_Alias	WEBSERVERS = www1, www2, www3

##
## User alias specification
##
## Groups of users.  These may consist of user names, uids, Unix groups,
## or netgroups.
# User_Alias	ADMINS = millert, dowdy, mikef

##
## Cmnd alias specification
##
## Groups of commands.  Often used to group related commands together.
# Cmnd_Alias	PROCESSES = /usr/bin/nice, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/renice, \
# 			    /usr/bin/pkill, /usr/bin/top
# Cmnd_Alias	REBOOT = /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff

##
## Defaults specification
##
## You may wish to keep some of the following environment variables
## when running commands via sudo.
##
## Locale settings
# Defaults env_keep += "LANG LANGUAGE LINGUAS LC_* _XKB_CHARSET"
##
## Run X applications through sudo; HOME is used to find the
## .Xauthority file.  Note that other programs use HOME to find
## configuration files and this may lead to privilege escalation!
# Defaults env_keep += "HOME"
##
## X11 resource path settings
# Defaults env_keep += "XAPPLRESDIR XFILESEARCHPATH XUSERFILESEARCHPATH"
##
## Desktop path settings
# Defaults env_keep += "QTDIR KDEDIR"
##
## Allow sudo-run commands to inherit the callers' ConsoleKit session
# Defaults env_keep += "XDG_SESSION_COOKIE"
##
## Uncomment to enable special input methods.  Care should be taken as
## this may allow users to subvert the command being run via sudo.
# Defaults env_keep += "XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE QT_IM_SWITCHER"
##
## Uncomment to use a hard-coded PATH instead of the user's to find commands
# Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
##
## Uncomment to send mail if the user does not enter the correct password.
# Defaults mail_badpass
##
## Uncomment to enable logging of a command's output, except for
## sudoreplay and reboot.  Use sudoreplay to play back logged sessions.
# Defaults log_output
# Defaults!/usr/bin/sudoreplay !log_output
# Defaults!/usr/local/bin/sudoreplay !log_output
# Defaults!REBOOT !log_output

##
## Runas alias specification
##

##
## User privilege specification
##
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
#Wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command
# %sudo	ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Uncomment to allow any user to run sudo if they know the password
## of the user they are running the command as (root by default).
# Defaults targetpw  # Ask for the password of the target user
# ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL  # WARNING: only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'

## Read drop-in files from /etc/sudoers.d
@includedir /etc/sudoers.d

## Enable insults
Defaults insults

I dunno if it’s still in fashion or now a security risk, but it’s been the practice of some users to give themselves root privileges. Add it below the “root” line, like thus

Yourusername ALL=(ALL) ALL

Followed by the terminal command, “sudo gpasswd -a yourusername wheel”

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You’re right and its written like that on the next line, didn’t catch that I think I might have changed that accidentally when I was uncommenting the line I should put it back (though sudo is currently working for me :man_shrugging:)

never seen that before but yeah I guess that would work although you would have to add each user you want to be allowed to use sudo

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