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How to add a single user to the sudoers list? (lemmy.world)
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In both Fedora and PCLinuxOS Debian edition which I have installed recently it seems I need to add the only user to sudoers list to perform certain actions.

How to do this?

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[–] Mellow12@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

File: /etc/sudoers

username ALL=(ALL) ALL

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/classic-sysadmin-configuring-the-linux-sudoers-file

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Debian uses a group called sudo. Add a user to that group.

usermod -aG sudo