Linux :how to provide sudo access to the user

Hello,

There is an excellent article on how to do this here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-delete-and-grant-sudo-privileges-to-users-on-a-debian-vps

Basically you need to login as the root user (or with root permissions) and add the user to the sudo user list:

sudo visudo

please see link below for examples, as root you can provide required priv to run certain commands to certain users:

https://www.sudo.ws/man/1.8.17/sudoers.man.html

Normally it is better to use groups of which the allowed users are members of rather than add every user to the sudoers file.

But otherwise it is the same, just edit that file.

Can you please provide the steps ?

There are several ways to do this and they change based on the distro you are using.
What distro are you working on?

Oracle Linux Server release 6.5

In order to resolve the below issue .. am looking to change setting.

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[bkp@srv~]$ rpm -Uvh AvamarClient-linux-rhel4-x86_64-7.1.100-370.rpm
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied)
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uid=1102(testbkp) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
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is that correct way to alter to sudo user  ??

mac_g, manually changing the gid for a user is not recommended under any circumstances, please follow my instruction to provide su access to a user.

how to edit file - /etc/sudoers to give "backup" user  not to get below error when he runs below cmd.
can u please advice



[bkp@srv~]$ rpm -Uvh AvamarClient-linux-rhel4-x86_64-7.1.100-370.rpm
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied)

after you edited the sudoers file,
the backup user should run the command with sudo before it, or use su to move up to root level before executing the command.

If you are having root logins , why don't you install rpm with same.

storage  admin will  take care of Installing & configure  ... would be good to have other user