How to Add a User and Grant Root Privileges on CentOS 6.5
- These instructions are intended specifically for adding a user on CentOS 6.5.
- I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed CentOS 6.5 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.
It’s just one simple command to add a user. In this case, we’re adding a user called
adduser mynewuser
Now set the password for the new user:
passwd mynewuser
For a refresher on editing files with vim see: New User Tutorial: Overview of the Vim Text Editor
visudo
Find the following code:
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
In this case, we’re granting root privileges to the user
mynewuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
Then exit and save the file with the command
If you’ve followed the instruction above correctly, then you should now have a user setup by the name of
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