If you’re looking to add something to the /etc/sudoers file in a Debian Wheezy install, you may find that the file isn’t there! To create the file while logged in as the root user you need to install the sudo package:
apt-get install sudo
Once that install completes the file will appear:
#
# This file MUST be edited with the ‘visudo’ command as root.
#
# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
# directly modifying this file.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
Defaults mail_badpass
Defaults secure_path=”/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin”# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL# See sudoers(5) for more information on “#include” directives:
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d