#ADD SUDO USER HOW TO#
#ADD SUDO USER PASSWORD#

This can be done by logging out and back in again. Once this has been given to the user you will need to reload the group permissions. You will need to replace chewett with the user you want to add sudo privileges to. This user is configured by default to have the sudo privilege. This command requires running as root so you will either need to log in as root or use the pi user. This can be achieved running the following command. To allow a user to run sudo on Raspbian OS you can add them to the group sudo group. However if you create a new Linux user on Raspbian you may want to give it sudo access. Aquí, username es el nombre del usuario que necesita ser añadido al grupo sudo. Para añadir el usuario al grupo sudo, ejecutamos el siguiente comando como un superusuario existente: usermod -aG sudo username. The default pi user on Raspbian OS will have been given sudo access. Supongamos que tienes un usuario que no es un usuario de sudo. It makes sure existing groups’ membership of the user is not affected. Use the usermod command to add the user to the sudo group: usermod-aG sudo sammy Again, be sure to replace sammy with the username you just added.

#ADD SUDO USER PASSWORD#

Next, create a password for the new user by entering the following in your terminal window: passwd UserName.

Use the actual username for your new user in place of UserName. This gives both an appropriate level of security and flexibility with running your computer. To add a user to sudoers list, use the usermod command to add an existing user to the sudo group on the system. To add a new sudo user, open the terminal window and enter the command: adduser UserName. This means that any commands you need to run as the superuser, you can prefix with sudo but otherwise you run as your user. Once you have finished running your command with sudo it will return to running as your user. Sudo allows you to run a single or multiple commands as the superuser. Since there will always be times you will want to run something with superuser rights sudo can help. If you accidentally run a malicious script then it will have rights to do anything on your computer unhindered. If you run everything as root then anything you run also has these rights. In addition to accidental issues, there are also malicious programs to consider. This could be you purposely (and wrongly) modifying files or a program you run accidentally changing them. There are a lot of files you will not want to edit or remove as doing so would cause issues for the computer. Running as root will let you change/delete any files on the filesystem. There are a number of reasons for this and the primary one is security. Instead of logging in as the root user and running your commands it is recommended to use sudo. The super user’s username is typically root on Linux machines.

Sudo is a command that lets you run a command as the “Super User”.

Scroll to the bottom of this file, and add the user you just created.This blog post describes how you can enable sudo for any user on the Raspberry Pi OS, Raspbian.

To add these, open the /etc/sudoers file by running the command:

This user can now SSH into your VPS with the password you just set, however they will not have any root user privileges.

Passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

Next, we need to modify the /etc/sudoers.tmp file.

Set a password for the newly created user: Let’s first add the user to the sudoers file using the following: sudo usermod -aG sudo userX.

If you haven’t already, create a user using the following command (change “vipsupport” to whichever username you like):.

For Self Managed VPS’ the SSH port is 2222.

#ADD SUDO USER HOW TO#

This article describes how to give a user sudo access, to provide higher level access, usually restricted only to the root user.Ī user with sudo access can be limited to only certain commands, or can be given full access just like the root user, but without having to give out your root password.

Add sudo user