{"id":9342,"date":"2021-01-05T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=9342"},"modified":"2021-12-04T06:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T06:44:14","slug":"add-user-sudo-privileges-using-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/add-user-sudo-privileges-using-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add User With Sudo Privileges in Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this tutorial, we showed how you can <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/add-users-ubuntu-20-04\/\">add a user to your Ubuntu system<\/a>. This time around we show you how to add the new or existing user with Sudo privileges using the command-line in Ubuntu 20.04.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason you want to elevate a user to have Sudo privileges is so that they can have the necessary rights to do various tasks without having to sign in or switch to the root account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>looking at the following example, this will add a new user named john to the sudo group. If the user john already exists, it will be added to the sudo group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo adduser john sudo<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add Existing User With Sudo Privileges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this example, the following command can be used to add existing users to the sudo group. In this case, our user is called john.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo usermod -aG sudo john<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Remove Existing User From sudo Group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The following command will remove the user from the sudo group but will not remove the user from the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo gpasswd -d john sudo<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>There you have it. You can now add a user to your Ubuntu system and give them the sudo rights as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial, we showed how you can add a user to your Ubuntu system. 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