#SUDO USER CENTOS HOW TO#

Here i have added a user named linuxmental to sudoer below # Allow root to run any commands anywhere Step 1: Open Terminal To change the sudo user password, you must first open the command line or terminal on your CentOS 8 system. On a Centos-6. Typically, these privileges are only accessible to the root user. To do this, we can use the su command (substitute user). Go to Line 98, Look for Below command # Allow root to run any commands anywhereĪdd this line, replacing with your Respective username) With the sudo command, you can grant certain users special administrative privileges. Using the su command Many commands can only be run as the root user so to run these commands we need to become 'root'.

#SUDO USER CENTOS HOW TO#

Here we can see how to add the sudo in Centos, In Ubuntu by Default sudo will be enabled, But in Centos and RHEL there is not sudo enabled by deafult, we can see here how to access the root privilage from other user by adding the user to Sudo Group.Įdit the Sudoer’s file using vim # vim /etc/sudoers

Sudo user centos