How to use adduser command In Linux
In this approach, we will use the adduser command, The adduser command is a wrapper around the basic system management commands like useradd and usermod, … and is commonly found in Debian-based systems like Ubuntu. This command can add a new user and also able to update a user account Information with the provided data. To add the user to the sudo group, the user should exist in the system.
Command:
sudo adduser username sudo
Output:
Using adduser Command
In the above image, we can verify whether the user is added to the sudo group with the id command.
How to Add User to Sudoers in Ubuntu
Sudo is a command line tool in a Unix-based system that allows a regular user to run a command as the superuser or another user. Only the super user is allowed to modify the majority of the System-wide settings and configurations. It is not advisable to run any Linux machine as a super user, so always create a normal user for day-to-day usage. To use the super user privileges we don’t need to log in as root users every time, just provide the sudo rights to a normal user to portray the normal user as a root user. It is often done with the help of Sudo group or sudoers file in Linux systems.
In this article, we will discuss how to add a normal user to the sudoers list so that the normal user can use the Sudo command to perform privileged operations.