How to Add User to Sudoers in Debian

Posted by linuxize on Nov 5, 2019 8:31 PM EDT
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sudo is a command-line utility that allows trusted users to run commands as another user, by default root.

This tutorial shows two ways to grant sudo privileges to a user. The first one is to add the user to the sudoers file. This file contains a set of rules that determines which users or groups are granted with sudo privileges, as well as the level of the privileges. The second option is to add the user to the sudo group specified in the sudoers file. By default, on Debian and its derivatives, members of the “sudo” group are granted with sudo access.

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