How to Set Yourself as Super User (Sudoer)

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Sudo, is a program that allows a system user to execute commands like he/she was the administrator of the system. By default, the only user of the system that is allowed to use sudo, is the root user, also called superuser. However, there is the file /etc/sudoers inside which we can add the users of the system that we allow them to use sudo.

There are aliases and more that you can use in order to determine groups of users and such, but the basic and classic usage is just to give sudo rights to a user, something that can be achieved using this line inside the /etc/sudoers file :

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ROBOT.LK  ALL = (ALL) ALL

This command gives the system user ROBOT.LK, the right to execute everything on the machine as any user(including root).

Some other examples could be:

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User_Alias PEOPLE = clare,kalvin

PEOPLE ALL=ALL

#The users in the PEOPLE group can run any command from any terminal.

Another example could be :

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gregory ALL= PRINTING

# user gregory may run lpc and lprm from any machine.