Attimes you’re needed to supply Root access for a specific account having limited privileges on a server. you need to follow the below steps to assign Root Access to a specific user using sudo.<\/p>\n
Step 1 :<\/strong>\u00a0Login to the server as root.<\/p>\n Step 2 :<\/strong>\u00a0Run the following command :<\/p>\n Step 3 :<\/strong>\u00a0The screen displayed would be of the\u00a0sudoers<\/strong>\u00a0file in the\u00a0vi editor<\/strong>. You must include the belwow line into this file to assign complete root privileges to an account (in our case it is accountname).:<\/p>\n Step 4 :<\/strong>\u00a0If you do not intend to offer the complete access but be able to run a particular list of commands, you may create a command alias in your\u00a0sudoers file<\/strong>, for example:<\/p>\n With this, you must be able tocreate a group of users whom you’ll be able to then assign command aliases to. you simply need to make sure that the users are separated using a comma (,).<\/p>\n The Cmnd_Alias would show you a list of different commands that the users of a specific Alias can run. You may then select the user alias and assign the command alias.<\/p>\n The above would raise the user to enter his\/er password every time sudo is run. Although if don\u2019t wish the system to raise a password every time, you’ll replace ADMINS ALL = HTTPD within the last line with the following:<\/p>\n ADMINS ALL = NOPASSWD: HTTPD<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Incase you wish any help with this, please contact our support department<\/a> via. 24\u00d77 Live Chat out there at www.ownwebservers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Using sudo to Assign Root Access to a User on a Linux Server Attimes you’re needed to supply Root access for a specific account having limited privileges on a server. you need to follow the below steps to assign Root Access to a specific user using sudo. Step 1 :\u00a0Login to the server as root. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nroot@host\u00a0[~]# visudo<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\naccountname ALL=(ALL) ALL<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\nUser_Alias ADMINS = accountname
\nCmnd_Alias HTTPD = \/etc\/init.d\/httpd
\nADMINS ALL = HTTPD<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n