I was experimenting with scripting for my first time on my new fedora distribution and I accidentally disabled root. but I am not a sudoer. What. Do. I. Do? do I need to reinstall. I can't make myself a sudoer because root is disabled, and I cannot enable root because I am not a sudoer.
Not sure what you did to disable root....
Do you still know root's password? If yes, type su - in a terminal to gain root access. Then you can add your user to the wheel group (as sudoer) , usermod -aG ... (check man usermod).
You could also boot a Fedora Live system from DVD or USB, chroot into you existing system (google that, plenty of guides out there), and set a new password for root. Here is also description, it seem to be outdated but may work... chroot commands look good.
to became a sudoer user maybe you can set it via gnome control panel => Users => Unlock => switch account typ
Worst case, you will have to do a root password recovery. This is not as scary as it sounds. There is, however, a bit of terminal work. Let me know if you still need any assistance.
Asked: 2016-11-30 22:35:08 -0500
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How did you disable root? What kind of script experiments were you doing?