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Pretty barebones Arch installation aside from xcfe4, xorg, and networkmanager. When using sudo as my default account I receive the prompt "user is not in the sudoers file"

These are my files respectively

visudo

# User privilege specification
##
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command


%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

/etc/group

wheel:x:998:andrew

OUTPUT

[andrew@1551-VOSTRO ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu  
[sudo] password for andrew: 
andrew is not in the sudoers file.

I am assuming this is something simple, but usually sudo is as simple as installing, uncommenting the wheel group option and adding the user to the group.

Ambre
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    Have you logged out and in again since adding yourself to wheel? What's the result of id (run as andrew)? If the wheel group isn't present that's your problem – Chris Davies Mar 15 '23 at 13:59
  • You need to reboot/log out and in again, in order for changes to a group to take effect. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18796/how-to-apply-changes-of-newly-added-user-groups-without-needing-to-reboot – Braden Carlson Mar 15 '23 at 14:00
  • Logging out was the solution, thank you guys! – Ambre Mar 15 '23 at 14:15

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