Security News > 2021 > March > Linux 101: How to give users sudo privileges on Ubuntu and Red Hat-based Linux distributions
2021-03-29 14:49
New Linux admins need to know how to give and take sudo privileges from users.
You might come into a situation when you need to "Promote" one of those users to admin and give them sudo privileges.
There's a much easier and more reliable method of promoting those standard users with sudo privileges.
Sudo usermod -aG sudo USER. Where user is the name of the user.
How to give users sudo privileges on Red Hat-based distributions.
You've officially promoted those standard users with sudo privileges.