Once you do, you can issue a command like this: sudo You must logout, and then login, to inherit the group membership change. You can check the results using the id command: # id This group is already set up to provide sudo access: usermod -a -G wheel john Next run this command to add your username to the special wheel group. Enter the password for root at the prompt.
In this example, your account name is john. Next, use this command to assume privileges of root, the system administrator. Use this command to verify your user account name: $ id If you’ve already installed your system, don’t worry. They typically have a single user who owns the system. This is a time saver for installations like laptops. Begin by adding the user account to the server if it does not already exist: adduser mynewusername.
In the installer, when you set up a normal user account, check the option for Make this user administrator:īehind the scenes, this option sets up the user so they can use sudo when they login. If sudo is not yet installed on your server, follow these commands in order to install sudo on Debian, CentOS, or FreeBSD: Debian apt-get install sudo -y CentOS yum install sudo -y How to Add Users to the Sudo Group Debian / CentOS / FreeBSD. If you are installing Fedora, you can configure this function in advance.
Certain commands in Fedora expect to be run only by a privileged user or administrator.
Enjoy sudo on your Android device.The sudo command makes it easier to manage your Fedora system.
To get sudo on Android, just download/install the “Sudo for Android ★root” app from the Play Store, give it root permissions, and tap on the INSTALL SUDO button to get it installed. There are a few novelty scripts out there that you can manually place in your /system/bin directory to get sudo on your Android device, but the easiest way we found to get sudo is through this app called “Sudo for Android ★root”. Instead, it’s the opposite, you get to install the sudo script only if your Android device is rooted. Getting sudo on Android doesn’t mean you’ll get root access without rooting the device. So, if we’re guiding you to install sudo on your Android device, then it’s purely an act of novelty. And since root access could do so much on your Android device, Google and device manufacturers chose to keep away from it to secure Android users. Well, sudo is equivalent to su on Android, which you use to execute commands that require root access. You might wonder why sudo isn’t available on Android, while every Linux distribution has it. If you’ve worked on a linux computer, you’d know how much involved and powerful the command sudo is, so much that it doesn’t need any introduction, so we’ll skip the part.