Pre-Flight Check
- 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.
Step 1: Add the User
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
Step 2: Grant Root Privileges to the User
For a refresher on editing files with vim see: New User Tutorial: Overview of the Vim Text Editor
visudo
Find the following code:
mynewuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
Then exit and save the file with the command