how to add user on debian 10?

[hthi]

debian 10

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su
adduser 'user name' sudo

On debian 9 64bit it worked. On debian 10 it does not. I tried

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su
sudo su
adduser 'user name' sudo

Is that how you get a user sudo? Thanks.

[4D696B65]

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su -

[None1975]

Is that how you get a user sudo? Thanks.

Install sudo:

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apt update
apt install sudo

Configure sudo

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# adduser foo sudo

After being added to a new group the user must log out and then log back in again for the new group to take effect.

[debian-2019]

Here is a method that works for me when adding a user to the sudoer group:

1) In the terminal,

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PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
visudo

2) After the visudo command, find the line that says

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%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

3) Under that line add the code below (assuming myusername is the user name)

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myusername   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

4) exit root

[Head_on_a_Stick]

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PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
visudo

You don't need to change PATH if you call the su command correctly, did you not see 4D696B65's post?

[vmclark]

It appears to be a two step process:

1)adduser 'user' sudo
2) visudo

Its been years since I last installed debian. I was expecting this info to be in a How-To somewhere.
Thanks for this topic.

[debian-2019]

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su
PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
visudo

You don't need to change PATH if you call the su command correctly, did you not see 4D696B65's post?

I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip!

[hthi]

Thanks.

apt install sudo

sudo is installed from the iso.