Sudoers file

SUSE Product Topics SLES Configure-Administer
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Dear All,

Please help i have message when running “sudo mkdir” it said “user is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported”

how can i fix this, since my root user remote logon disabled.

i’m using SLES 12 SP3 on cloud.

Regards,

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[QUOTE=ionly;59297]Dear All,

Please help i have message when running “sudo mkdir” it said “user is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported”

how can i fix this, since my root user remote logon disabled.

i’m using SLES 12 SP3 on cloud.

Regards,[/QUOTE]
Hi and welcome to the Forum :slight_smile:
Just login as your user and then switch to root user with su - and enter the root password.

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[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;59300]Hi and welcome to the Forum :slight_smile:
Just login as your user and then switch to root user with su - and enter the root password.[/QUOTE]

Hi,

i try this and show "su: Authentication failure
i make sure that my password is correct

is it any other way?

Thanks

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[QUOTE=ionly;59323]Hi,

i try this and show "su: Authentication failure
i make sure that my password is correct

is it any other way?

Thanks[/QUOTE]
Hi
So you don’t have root user access? Where are you trying to create the directory on the filesystem?

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[QUOTE=ionly;59297]Dear All,

Please help i have message when running “sudo mkdir” it said “user is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported”

how can i fix this, since my root user remote logon disabled.

i’m using SLES 12 SP3 on cloud.

Regards,[/QUOTE]

What do you mean by “i’m using SLES 12 SP3 on cloud”? Which cloud? Is cloud-init being used and you’re authenticating using an SSH public key?

HTH.