How to grant sudo privilege to a given user

There are several ways to grant sudo privilege to a user in linux, two of them are the following

1. Add the user at the sudoers file

In order to grant sudo privilege to a given user in linux with sudo, follow this process

Required data

username = username that we which to grant privilege to

Sample data

username = abernal

Process 

1. As root or as an administrative user execute the next command

visudo

2. Edit the file that appears after the command execution adding the next lines (abernal ....)

# User privilege specification
root        ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
abernal     ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

2. Add the "user" to the group "wheel"

In order to grant sudo privilege to a given user in linux with sudo, follow this process

Required data

username = username that we which to grant privilege to

Sample data

username = abernal

Process 

1. As root or as an administrative user execute the next command

visudo

2. Uncomment the wheel configuration if necesary and save the file

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

​3. As root or as an administrative user, add the user to the wheel group

​$ usermod -aG wheel alejandro