Hi! I want my user to be able to use certain commands that require administrative priviledges, but i dont want the user account to be an administer account. So i want to sudo some commands, but the user needs to be in a sudoers list..
If you add user to the wheel group it will have sudo access as administrative user, this means he will not be limitated to specific commands. If you want the user to have sudo for some specific commands then you have to edit your sudoers file and add, as sample you want the user to be able to restart or initialize services you can do something like
target_user_name ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/journalctl, /bin/systemctl
or if there are more than one user you can do for a group
%group_name ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/journalctl, /bin/systemctl
That way user will be able to run those commands with no password and will be limited to them only.
Good Luck
Do not include the NOPASSWD: if you still want the user to type their own password to run the commands.
Commands run via sudo are recorded in the "audit logs" under the user name running them, not root - making track back of who-did-what much more meaningful than being logged as user root
Asked: 2016-06-15 09:33:10 -0600
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as root run:
usermod -aG wheel sigurdskWARNING: The
wheelgroup effectively gives the user FULL root access (via sudo) - if that is appropriate, then add users as required - otherwise use the method described by @aeperezt.