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= Adding a user to sudoers
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Mirek Jahoda; Ankur Sinha ; The Fedora Docs Team
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:revnumber: F38
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:revdate: 2023-08-06
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:category: Administration
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:tags: How-to
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One of the most common operations that administrators want to accomplish when managing `sudo` permissions is to grant a new user general `sudo` access. This is helpful if you want to give an account full administrative access to the system.
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[discrete]
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== Giving a user `sudo` privileges
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On Fedora, it is the `wheel` group the user has to be added to, as this group has full admin privileges. Add a user to the group using the following command:
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[subs=+quotes]
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$ sudo usermod -aG wheel _username_
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If adding the user to the group does not work immediately, you may have to edit the `/etc/sudoers` file to uncomment the line with the group name:
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$ sudo visudo
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%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
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...
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You will need to logout and back in for changes to take effect.
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