{"id":519,"date":"2026-09-19T23:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2026-09-19T23:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:46:19","slug":"add-user-to-sudoers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/add-user-to-sudoers\/","title":{"rendered":"Add user to sudoers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is just a note really to myself as I always have to look this command up because I do not use it often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To add a user to the sudoers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enter root.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>usermod -aG sudo &lt;username><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Logout and sign back in as user and test.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sudo1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sudo1.png 622w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sudo1-300x82.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m actually embarrassed I am posting this here to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a note really to myself as I always have to look this command up because I do not use it often. To add a user to the sudoers: I&#8217;m actually embarrassed I am posting this here to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}