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Senerio/Problem
So you just installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core Linux. Everyone knows you aren't supposed to use root (Don't they?). During the installation you created a new user named superman. You finish the install, and logon as superman. You deside to update Fedora using yum. You go to a command prompt and type sudo yum check-update. You get some funky error message saying you're not allowed to sudo.
Solution/Fix
You'll have to logon as root at lease once to setup your /etc/sudoers file.
Log off and then log back on as root.
Open a terminal window and type the following (Remember, in this senerio your name is superman):
echo 'superman ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
If you don't want to be prompted for a password every time you sudo, then use this instead:
echo 'superman ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >> /etc/sudoers