I’m trying to install something on my MacOS (or Linux) system and I don’t have permission because I’m not the admin. So I tried using sudo
and it says that I’m not in /etc/sudoers
file. I’ve tried editing the sudoers
file but it won’t let me, so I “googled” it. Everybody says to use visudo
to edit the file. The problem is, it won’t even let me use visudo
! When I type “visudo” it just says
visudo: /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
Would appreciate some help. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I tried switching users and then editing the sudoers file but still didn’t work
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Answer
You need to be root
(or have root
privileges) in order to use the visudo
command and edit the sudoers
file