Add User to Sudoers on CentOS

You can do this in 2 methods- however, IMHO method-2 usually works great for me.

Method-1

Step 1: Verify the Wheel Group is Enabled

Your CentOS 7 installation may or may not have the wheel group enabled. Open the configuration file by entering the command:

visudo

Scroll through the configuration file until you see the following entry:

## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL

If the second line begins with the # sign, it has been disabled and marked as a comment. Just delete the # sign at the beginning of the second line so it looks like the following:

%wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL

Then save the file and exit the editor.

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