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    "no valid sudoers sources found quitting"

    Hello, every time i try a sudo command in Terminal on Mac OS Mojave, i get : - sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting - sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin I'm on the admin user called "Noa" but but the name of the macbook is in the name of sam. When I open terminal I directly...
  2. David Mansfield

    Need to fix permissions of sudoers file in High Sierra?

    I was trying to uninstall some old software using Terminal and got this message: sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin Uninstallation stopped. I did a little research and found it likely that the permissions on my sudoers file are set wrong. I...
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    Sudo Help : )

    Hello All, I have messed up my sudo situation and don't know how to fix it. Truth be told, I was trying to get some cracked software to work with a sudo command and must have made a careless mistake... Now whenever I try a sudo command, I get the following response: sudo: /etc/sudoers is...
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    VeraCrypt won't mount external hard drives on a standard user. Help!

    Hey there, So I’m facing an issue with VeraCrypt on my Mac Book Pro under the Version 10.14.4 using a standard user account without admin rights. After typing my admin password into the app it’ll then come up with a warning saying: „Failed to obtain administrator privileges: user is not in the...
    • Marianne2882
    • Thread
    • 10.14.4 admin rights admin standard use encrypted standard user sudo sudoers sudoersfile veracrypt
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS Mojave (10.14)
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