Switch users and sudo access

  • Commands
    • su - username
    • sudo command
    • visudo (used to edit the sudoers file safely)
  • File : /etc/sudoers
## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
wheel  ALL=(ALL)       ALL

If we want a user to be able to execute sudo command, we can add them in the wheel group using usermod command (see User Account Management)

usermod -aG wheel userName