Enable Sudoers

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Arch Linux resources website https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_groups

Enable sudoers Notes

Settings

Open settings.

visudo

Uncomment the wheel group, this allows all users in the wheel group to run all commands.

%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Add user

Add user to the wheel group, change userName to the user name you require.

useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash userName

Protect the user account with a password

passwd userName

Adding a system user

useradd -r -s /usr/bin/nologin userName

Changing user login names

usermod -l userNewName userOldName

Changing user’s home dir

usermod -d /new/home/dir -m userName

Test if sudo works by entering the command

sudo whoami

If you get something like this (below), then sudo is working for the set account.

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.
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