How to Create a New User and Grant Sudo Privileges to it in Linux Debian
In this video we will create a user for our Linux system and then grant it the sudo privilege. The commands we will use in this tutorial go following.
Create a new user
sudo adduser USERNAME
Note: Replace USERNAME with the username of your choice and after pressing enter, give it the user password.
Make user sudoer
usermod -aG sudo USERNAME
Method 2 of making a user sudoer
visudo
Add the following line to the end of file:
USERNAME ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
Ctrl+X
Y
Log into the user account
su - USERNAME
Test privileges
whoami
sudo whoami
Logout from an account
logout
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