-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 02:56:36PM -0600, Josh W. wrote: > Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not sure of > the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks!
In Debian, typically there's a group called 'sudo': user belonging to this group have sudo capability (if the group is enabled for that in the /etc/sudoers file). So: - enable the 'sudo' group in the /etc/sudoers file, by editing as root (there's a nice command visudo which calls your favourite editor on this file and helps you making sure that you don't break anything -- see man visudo for details). Make sure you have a line like %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL in that file (possibly you just have to remove a comment sign '#' at its beginning) - add your user to the sudo group: adduser <your user here> sudo Note that you have to login for that to take effect. Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAloDdXYACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaFHQCeJ7Iy8c8N5H11DSot5/9l3oLv IogAni/KX5rU+8nuES4HN/iIcD7CqKcy =0Oku -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
