sudo

A quick reminder on adding a user to the sudo file.

We want to use visudo as root to edit the /etc/sudoers file.

we add our user as follows;

username ALL=(ALL) ALL

 

If we need to create users or so, read on...

Firstly, if we need to add a new user and this can be done with;

adduser username

or

useradd username

the former being preferred.

[Optional]

Add user to sudo group

usermod -a -G groupname username

Example;

usermod -a -G sudo username

Note: groupadd groupname adds a new group, so;

groupadd sudo would add the group sudo.

Also, it is worth noting that in some(most cases), running;

usermod -a -G sudo username

is all that is required to add a user to sudoers.