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How to add a single user to the sudoers list? (self.asklinux)

submitted 4 months ago by voracread to c/asklinux

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In both Fedora and PCLinuxOS Debian edition which I have installed recently it seems I need to add the only user to sudoers list to perform certain actions.

How to do this?

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[–] Mellow12 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

File: /etc/sudoers

username ALL=(ALL) ALL

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/classic-sysadmin-configuring-the-linux-sudoers-file

-or-

Debian uses a group called sudo. Add a user to that group.

usermod -aG sudo

[–] voracread 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I will try that.

[–] PlasticExistence 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Add the desired user to the wheel group in Fedora

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/adding_user_to_sudoers_file/