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Hello,<br />
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There is an excellent article on how to do this here:<br />
<a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-delete-and-grant-sudo-privileges-to-users-on-a-debian-vps" rel="ugc">https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-delete-and-grant-sudo-privileges-to-users-on-a-debian-vps</a><br />
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Basically you need to login as the root user (or with root permissions) and add the user to the sudo user list:<br />
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sudo visudo
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please see link below for examples, as root you can provide required priv to run certain commands to certain users:<br />
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<a href="https://www.sudo.ws/man/1.8.17/sudoers.man.html" rel="ugc">https://www.sudo.ws/man/1.8.17/sudoers.man.html</a>
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Normally it is better to use groups of which the allowed users are members of rather than add every user to the sudoers file.<br />
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But otherwise it is the same, just edit that file.
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Can you please provide the steps ?
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There are several ways to do this and they change based on the distro you are using.<br />
What distro are you working on?
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Oracle Linux Server release 6.5
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In order to resolve the below issue .. am looking to change setting.<br />
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[bkp@srv~]$ rpm -Uvh AvamarClient-linux-rhel4-x<wbr />86_64-7.1.<wbr />100-370.rp<wbr />m<br />
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied)<br />
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uid=1102(testbkp) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)<br />
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is that correct way to alter to sudo user &nbsp;??
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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.
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how to edit file -<b> /etc/sudoers </b>to give &quot;backup&quot; user &nbsp;not to get below error when he runs below cmd.<br />
can u please advice <br />
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[bkp@srv~]$ rpm -Uvh AvamarClient-linux-rhel4-x<wbr />86_64-7.1.<wbr />100-370.rp<wbr />m<br />
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied)
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after you edited the sudoers file,<br />
the backup user should run the command with sudo before it, or use su to move up to root level before executing the command.
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If you are having root logins , why don't you install rpm with same.
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storage &nbsp;admin will &nbsp;take care of Installing &amp;&nbsp;configure &nbsp;... would be good to have other user
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please advice the steps required to provide the sudo access to the user.
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