Users and Accounts Lab 0.1

useradd sudo useradd –c “Your Name” y.name Sudo passwd y.name Enter password at prompt then again at second prompt

Useradd Options

Add the user to sudo In order to make administrative changes the new user needs to become a “super user” with root like privileges. To do this add the user name to the sudo file Use the visudo editor for this task

sudo visudo Use the vi commands i for insert mode Navigate to the root run line Type in user name with ALL=(ALL) ALL options Press esc, :wq to save entries Remember this give root like privileges to this user

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