nixcraft ([personal profile] nixcraft) wrote2017-01-23 05:26 pm

How To Create a Sudo User on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS Server Hosted in Cloud

I am a new Ubuntu Linux 16.04.xx LTS server user. How do I create a new sudo user on my server? How do I add a new user as sudoer file using the command line option on Ubuntu?

In Linux (and Unix in general), there is a SuperUser named root. The root user can do anything and everything, and thus doing daily work as the root can be very dangerous. You could type a command incorrectly and destroy the system.

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