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Since updating to Catalina I haven't been able to do sudo. I'am an admin user, but every attempt to use sudo (such as sudo visudo or sudo vim /etc/sudoers) gives me this message

this user is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.

I know that apple has creating a read only volume for the system. But when I go the the data volume in the terminal I get the same message.

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    Never use vi to edit sudoers, aways use visudo. – nohillside♦ Apr 23 '20 at 12:45
  • To get back to the question: sudo should work on Catalina the same as before. What is the result of id -a? – nohillside♦ Apr 23 '20 at 12:46
  • I use sudo regularly on my macOS (10.15.4 as of a few days ago). I'll make a guess that you have more than one admin user? If so, you might try doing an su to the original admin user, and trying sudo visudo from that userid. If you get in that way, then give your other admin user id permission to do sudo visudo. – Seamus Apr 23 '20 at 14:54
  • Try creating a new administrator or try booting Recovery and disabling SIP and using sudo mount -uw / . Then you can edit the sudoers file. – Todd Apr 23 '20 at 16:55

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