In this article, we will see how to create a user in Centos and how to grant root privileges to a user in Centos.
How to Create Users in Centos Linux
You can use the command below to create a user in Centos.
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adduser frks |
We have added this user, but how do we determine its password. You can use the command below to determine the password.
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passwd frks |
Instead of the frks above, you should type the username you want to set the password for.
After typing your new password in “New password:” and “Retype new password” above, you will have set your new password for your user.
How To Grant root Privileges to a User in Centos
We created a user and defined his password. Now let’s grant root Privileges to this user. To do this we need to edit sudoers as below.
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vi /etc/sudoers |
After editing Sudoers, we add the user created as follows.
After adding, we save and exit(:wq) and our user now has root privilege.
