Adding a user to sudoers

One of the most common operations that administrators want to accomplish when managing sudo permissions is to grant a new user general sudo access. This is helpful if you want to give an account full administrative access to the system.

On Fedora, it is the wheel group the user has to be added to, as this group has full admin privileges. Add a user to the group using the following command:

If adding the user to the group does not work immediately, you may have to edit the /etc/sudoers file to uncomment the line with the group name:

You will need to logout and back in for changes to take effect.