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Sorry, user "user" is not allowed to execute '/usr/bin/apt-get update' as root on

I've installed Debian 7 and just executed sudo apt-get update and got this error: 

Sorry, user xsma is not allowed to execute '/usr/bin/apt-get update' as root on ACS.ACS

my user is "xsma" and "ACS" is the name of the computer.

Solution

  • I just solved this by reading Debian sudo page with two steps:
    1) add the user to be sudo to the sudo group.
    2) log out and log back in to gain that group's permissions.

    Debian page said use: # adduser xsma sudo, while I had used # vigr and # vigr -s.