Making your DW user a sudo account

In recent versions of Ubuntu, this command given in Dreamwidth Scratch Installation doesn't work automatically:

usermod -a -G sudo username

When this happens, trying to use sudo as the dw user can give you this error:

dw is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

To fix this, edit the /etc/sudoers file with your root user and uncomment this line (take off the leading #):

%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

You can also edit the /etc/sudoers file and add a line specific to dw instead, depending on which behaviour you want.

If you don't want to enter your password during sudo commands, use:

dw ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

If you do want to enter your password during sudo commands, use:

dw ALL = (ALL) ALL