Adding a User with Sudo Access using visudo

Posted on by

Use the command visudo to access the /etc/sudoers file.

visudo

Uncomment this line:

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

So it looks like:

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

Save the file then

Run this command for your user

usermod -aG wheel usernameforsudoaccesshere

Your done.

But test it

su usernamewithsudoaccess
sudo yum history

Any root only command is a good enough test for this. The command should run succesfully after re-providing your users password for sudo access.