This blog will let you know how to create sudo users on CentOS.

Steps to create new sudo user

Step One: Login to your server as root user

$ ssh root@server_ip_address

Step Two: Use the adduser command to add new user to your system

adduser username

Use the passwd command to update user's password

passwd username

Prompt will appear now and it will ask to confirm password

Set password prompts:
Changing password for user username.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

Step Three: Add user to the wheel group by usermod command

usermod -aG wheel username

Step Four: Test sudo access on new user account

i) Switch user by typing su command

$ su - username
$ sudo command_to_run

example:

sudo ls -la /root

OUTPUT:

[sudo] password for username:

If your user is in the proper group and you entered the password correctly, the command that you issued with sudo should run with root privileges.

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