Granting Users Administrative Privileges

After installation of Debian 10, user is not inclued in sudo group, thus cannot use sudo command as a non-root user as in Ubuntu.

Problem#

Cannot use sudo command after installation of Debian 10.

Reason#

Default user is not included in sudo group.

Solution#

Add user to sudo group.

1. Log in as root

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   $ su -

2. Add user to sudo group

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   # usermod -aG sudo your_user_name

3. Restart.

4. After log in, user can use sudo now.

References#

1. Digital Ocean