How to Add a User and Grant Root Privileges with visudo on CentOS 6.7

June 10, 2016 by admin

Change to root

$ su -
Password:

adduser mynewuser

Now set the password for the new user:


passwd mynewuser

Step 2: Grant Root Privileges to the User
For a refresher on editing files with vim see: New User Tutorial: Overview of the Vim Text Editor


visudo

Find the following code:


## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

In this case, we’re granting root privileges to the user mynewuser . Add the following below that code:


mynewuser ALL=(ALL) ALL