Whonix-workstatuion-17: Cant use sudo “permission denied: sudo” - on brand new template

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This is expected. This is a part of new hardening of Whonix Workstation templates and introduction of sysmaint account. Here are more information on sysmaint account.

To have sudo access to new Whonix Workstation (and Kicksecure) templates, open a terminal with sysmaint account in them:

qvm-run -u sysmaint TEMPLATENAME xterm

or

qvm-run -u sysmaint TEMPLATENAME xfce4-terminal

Then you can use sudo

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