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I have an ubuntu account but i do not have sudo access, I did try sudo usermod -a -G username to give me sudo access but I am getting username is not a sudoer file, this will be reported. To get a sudo access to an existing account what do I need to do ?

pl_rock
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Chauhan
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login with root user using 

 su - root

then run command 

usermod -a -G sudo username

or

run command visudo and paste 

username ALL=(ALL) ALL

if still you face problem then run command 

 mount -o rw,remount /

and try again above method

also, you are saying. you able to run command 

sudo adduser chauhan sudo

then you can do this way also 

su - chauhan
sudo usermod -a -G sudo username
pl_rock
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