Linux Diary: Create sudo user on centos

Log in to your server as the root user.
```
ssh root@server_ip_address
```
Use the adduser command to add a new user to your system.

Be sure to replace username with the user that you want to create.
```
adduser username
```
- Use the passwd command to update the new user’s password.
```
passwd username
```
- Set and confirm the new user’s password at the prompt. A strong password is highly recommended!
```
Set password prompts:
Changing password for user username.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
```
Use the usermod command to add the user to the wheel group.
```
usermod -aG wheel username
```
By default, on CentOS, members of the wheel group have sudo privileges.
Test sudo access on new user account

Use the su command to switch to the new user account.
```
su - username
```
As the new user, verify that you can use sudo by prepending “sudo” to the command that you want to run with superuser privileges.
```
sudo command_to_run
```
For example, you can list the contents of the /root directory, which is normally only accessible to the root user.
```
sudo ls -la /root
```
The first time you use sudo in a session, you will be prompted for the password of the user account. Enter the password to proceed.
```
Output:
[sudo] password for username:
```
If your user is in the proper group and you entered the password correctly, the command that you issued with sudo should run with root privileges.

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