How To Create a New Sudo User on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

Sudo command allows you to run a command as root/administration – usually it grants the root user privileges to normal users. This guide/tutorial will show you how to create a new user with sudo access on Rocky Linux 8

Adding a New User to the Server

First, open the terminal or SSH client like putty and SSH in to your server using the root user

Add the new user using the following command

adduser teckassist

Note: Make sure to replace tecassist with the actual username you want to create.

Update the password of the new user, using the following command

passwd teckassist

Note: Remember to replace teckassist with the actual user that you just created. You will have to enter the password twice:

Changing password for user teckassist.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

Adding the User to the wheel Group

By default, on Rocky Linux, all members of the wheel group have full sudo access.

add the user to the wheel group using the following command

usermod -aG wheel teckassist

Note: Make sure to replace teckassist with the actual username you’d like to give sudo privileges to.

Verifying sudo Access

First, change the newly created user using the following command

su - teckassist

So now, to verify the sudo access is working or not, run any command along with before sudo

sudo cd /home

Note: It will ask the password for the first time, Enter the password of the newly created user.

If it works, it will change the directory to home directory.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have created a new user and enable the sudo access to the user.