Re: adding a user to sudo

Janina Sajka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.blinux.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I second the advice to use visudo rather than echo.

However, there's one other aspect not yet discussed ...

If you want some user to have sudo priveleges, you need to add them to
group wheel.


Kristoffer Gustafsson writes:
> Hi.
> I need to add a user to the sudoers file.
> can you help me on how to do this?
> I try to make a root command. for example sudo reboot.
> then I get a message that my user doesn't exist in the sudoers file.
> /Kristoffer
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