Add user to sudoers

Question

I want to add a user account to sudoers.

I type in

sudo usermod -aG sudo username

Then I reboot.

I type

apt update

I get permission denied.

I type

sudo apt update

Followed by account password and apt update runs.

I thought that adding things to sudoers allows me to run without specifying sudo and entering password?

Correct. However where in your question did you add "things to sudoers"? See for instance https://askubuntu.com/questions/7477/how-can-i-add-a-new-user-as-sudoer-using-the-command-line on enabling a users to be able to issue ANY command. — Rinzwind, Aug 22 '18 at 14:46
Okay to it does not add "things to sudoers". So sudo usermod -aG sudo username Does not give sudo privileges to username? — rob18767, Aug 22 '18 at 14:56
What you did is add a user to the group "sudo" enabling that user to use "sudo". That does not remove the need to use "sudo" before a command nor for you to supply a password every 15 minutes ;) — Rinzwind, Aug 22 '18 at 14:57
Ah gotcha I ran sudo visudo And added the line username = ALL= (root) NOPASSWD: ALL That got me where I wanted. Thank you. I will change the last ALL to point to what I want to specifically run in BIN. Thank you. — rob18767, Aug 22 '18 at 15:04
Adding a user to the `/etc/sudoers/` file is not enough... You will have to add the `NOPASSWORD` tags... — NerdOfCode, Aug 22 '18 at 20:32

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '18 at 20:23

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Adding a user to /etc/sudoers/ just permits this user to invoke commands with sudo. Using sudo is still required.

answered Aug 22 '18 at 20:23

guntbert

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