Make a normal user sudo user on RHEL7

Himanshu Pratap
Dec 24, 2020

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  1. Create a new user
#adduser username
#passwd username

2. Verify wheel group is enabled

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

3. Add User to Group

#usermod –aG wheel username

4. Test

$su - username
$sudo ls -la /root

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Himanshu Pratap
Himanshu Pratap

Written by Himanshu Pratap

System Administrator and Full stack web developer.

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