How to set a user as a group administrator in Linux?
To set a user as a group administrator, you can follow these steps:
- Login to the Linux system using the root user or a user with sudo privileges.
- To create a new group administrator user, you can use the following command:
- Create a new user with the username specified.
is the username of the new user to be created. - Add new users to the sudo group, which has administrator privileges. Use the following command:
- Add user to the sudo group.
- Alternatively, if you are using a Debian or Ubuntu system, you can use the following command:
- Add the user to the admin group with root privileges.
- Confirm that the user has been successfully added to the sudo group. Use the following command:
- username’s groups
- The command will display a list of groups the user belongs to, make sure the sudo group is included in the list.
The user has now been designated as a group administrator and can use the sudo command to perform actions that require administrator privileges.