In Debian, the user created during installation is not automatically added to the sudoers list. To fix do: Change to root user by typing su in a terminal. As root, do visudo . Search for line root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL . Copy that line (in nano, do Ctrl+K then Ctrl+U to uncut and on more Ctrl+U to duplicate the line). Change that new line to like timus ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL . This adds user timus to the sudoers. Reference(s): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1837295
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