Add a user to the sudoers

[giacomo (Giacomo Sanchietti)]

The “root” user is member only of the root group itself.

[pike (Michael Kicks)]

So there are groups on server .
This means that should be possible to create another group… the sudoers.

[stephdl (Stéphane de Labrusse)]

@giacomo

create a group powerusers in Users & Groups page
add one ore more user to the group
create a sudo file like this:

echo “%powerusers ALL=(ALL) ALL” > /etc/sudoers.d/90powerusers
chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/90powerusers

do you think your solution is workable if the account provider is remote ?

[stephdl (Stéphane de Labrusse)]

@stephdl

do you think your solution is workable if the account provider is remote ?

answering myself : yes