How to Give a User Sudo Privileges in Ubuntu

23 thoughts on “How to Give a User Sudo Privileges in Ubuntu”

• It worked. Thank you.

• Finally, it worked. I just had to reset my laptop for it to take affect

• Thank you bro youre a live safer

• problem is: i don't know my root pw 😀 i can't remember if there was any pw i was asked to set…

• It didnt work for me. Still having the same user is not Sudoer error …….. really frustrating

• Hi tony. how can i change a user password for not access to ssh thanks …

• Thanks alot this helped me so much please can we talk

• Why would you add user to sudo group if it is just same as calling "sudo sth" function? I thought there would be sth like not typing password but there is no difference…

• I did what you said here on RHEL, but an error occurred saying that the user is not in sudoer file.

• Hi Tone. After you added the user to the sudoer group, and the user used sudo before a command what password is he supposed to enter?
  In other words, what password did you enter after sudo whoami.

• This didn’t work when I type exit it closes my whole terminal and still says I’m not in the sudoers list

• A nice video.. I have also explained similar concept on my channel: https://youtu.be/r5qaG61CHKU 🙂

• So. what do we do if this doesn't work at all?? lol

• Can someone help me , i had to create user names and give a certain user Sudo group access how do i do that , i know it’s using the chmod but I’m lost

• new guy su – was my ticket changed user and installed proxychains4 , off to next issue lol

• Its will ask for sudo password. How to give password-less sudo access?

• When I made my %mygrp it cant find that sudo privilege group

• Not clear

• How do you get the root password?

• Hello tony, Nice work, I am not root user, using bastion server as as a user and connection rest of instances. can i create the new user ?
  also i tried $sudo adduser user1 and getting [sudo] password for ******:
  as am using pem file then how to keep sudo password for ?

• mine automatically goes authentication falure 0:31

• When I type in whoami it says the user is root. Does that mean I gave all my root privileges to this user?

• Nice work

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