How Do I Give Someone Sudo Access in Linux?

How Do I Give Someone Sudo Access in Linux?
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How do I Sudo another user?

Another way to switch to another account with sudo is to use the -s option. If you run sudo -s that will start a shell as root. You can specify a user with the -u option.
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Using sudo.

Commands Meaning
sudo -u user command Run command as user.

How do I give someone admin access in Linux?

To use this tool, you need to issue the command sudo -s and then enter your sudo password. Now enter the command visudo and the tool will open the /etc/sudoers file for editing). Save and close the file and have the user log out and log back in. They should now have a full range of sudo privileges.

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