How to make Linux user a Sudo User

How to make Linux user a Sudo User

Login through root

then run following command to add user for example 'developer' to wheel group.

# /usr/sbin/usermod -aG wheel developer

then edit the /etc/sudoers file

# vi /etc/sudoers

go down and find this…

## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

and remove the hash in front of %wheel so it looks like…

## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Once that’s done, your user “developer” is part of the wheel group, who are allowed to use sudo.

Hope this helps...