How to I add my username to the sudoers file?
On my ubuntu desktop, the sudoer file has only root.
so basically, I will just need to adduser to sudo file system.
And I need to access to single user mode.
I know the easiest way to to just select recovery mode in grub by hold down left Shift when booting. Then Drop to root shell prompt.
But it is ready-only file system. I need to write myself to the file.
I know I have to select remount first, but where is it?
and any other way to add myself to sudo?
Best Answer
Sounds like a bit of a predicament you're in. If you've given your root account a password,
sumay allow you to elevate privileges and add your user to the group "sudo" or "admin".If not, have you tried running a live CD? You should be able to mount your root partition from the Ubuntu live CD fairly easily, say to
/mnt/tmproot/, and add this line somewhere in/mnt/tmproot/etc/sudoers:where "username" is whatever your username is.