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Development Tools Console Foundations Users and Permissions Sudo

Tyler Nilsson
Tyler Nilsson
10,106 Points
Posted by Tyler Nilsson
Tyler Nilsson
10,106 Points

This incident will be reported..? I'm confused

I tried to change the file of hello.txt permission to my user name using sudo chown but it gave me an error saying "This incident will be reported". What did I do incorrectly...? Very confused

1 Answer

Wout Ceulemans
Wout Ceulemans
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Wout Ceulemans
Wout Ceulemans
17,603 Points

Seems like you are not in the sudoers file. The message you received is the automatic message you receive when something like this fails. Which is not abnormal, I assume you tried this in a workspace, where access might be restricted for security purposes.

Don't worry, I don't think anyone actually looks at the reports. And even if, it's not that you will actually get in trouble for it (if you are worried about that :P)

Tyler Nilsson
Tyler Nilsson
10,106 Points
Tyler Nilsson
Tyler Nilsson
10,106 Points

Haha I was a bit worried at first but then I realized, I'm sure I'm not the only dummy to create this error lol and thank you for the info I didn't get why but that makes sense!