<div>
modify /etc/password and change the uid to 0 that will give root access to that user. I do agree though that you should run visudo and add the users to the sudo list instead. Much more secure
</div>


<div>
groupmems -a &nbsp;-g wheel
</div>


<div>
There were two equally valid approaches mentioned here, using su - to temporarily become root, and configuring sudo to be able to run specific commands with root privs<br />
<br />
If it was up to me, I'd split the points between the first suggestion of each of the two types
</div>


<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
what command to be used to add a normal user with root priviledge<br />
<br />
1) I want to add a user and the user should have root priviledge . how can i add ?<br />
<br />
2) is it possible via usermod to give root acces for existing user ?
</div>
</div>


what command to be used to add a normal user with root priviledge

1) I want to add a user and the user should have root priviledge . how can i add ?

2) is it possible via usermod to give root acces for existing user ?

modify /etc/password and change the uid to 0 that will give root access to that user. I do agree though that you should run visudo and add the users to the sudo list instead. Much more secure

There were two equally valid approaches mentioned here, using su - to temporarily become root, and configuring sudo to be able to run specific commands with root privs

If it was up to me, I&#39;d split the points between the first suggestion of each of the two types

Command to add a user with root priviledge

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.