Dell PowerFlex Rack with PowerFlex 3.x Administration Guide

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Granting sudo privileges to a user

If the new user should have the ability to run commands with root (administrative) privileges, you must give the new user access to sudo.

Steps

To get sudo privileges the user is added to the wheel group (which gives sudo access to all its members by default) using gpasswd.


If you are logged in as ...	Type the following:
root user	`gpasswd -a username wheel`
nonroot user with sudo privileges	`sudo gpasswd -a username wheel`

Now the new user can run commands with administrative privileges, type sudo ahead of the command that you want to run as an administrator:

sudo some_command

You are prompted to enter the password of the regular user account that you are signed in as. Once the correct password has been submitted, the command you entered is performed with root privileges.