How to Add User to Sudoers in Ubuntu?
In this section, we will see how we can add users to Sudoers in the Ubuntu environment. We have five different methods which are listed below.
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- Method 1: Using the usermod command
- Method 2: Using the useradd command
- Method 3: Using adduser command
- Method 4: Using gpasswd command
- Method 5: using visudo command
How to Add User to Sudoers in Ubuntu
Sudo is a command line tool in a Unix-based system that allows a regular user to run a command as the superuser or another user. Only the super user is allowed to modify the majority of the System-wide settings and configurations. It is not advisable to run any Linux machine as a super user, so always create a normal user for day-to-day usage. To use the super user privileges we don’t need to log in as root users every time, just provide the sudo rights to a normal user to portray the normal user as a root user. It is often done with the help of Sudo group or sudoers file in Linux systems.
In this article, we will discuss how to add a normal user to the sudoers list so that the normal user can use the Sudo command to perform privileged operations.
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