= Adding a user to sudoers
Mirek Jahoda; Ankur Sinha ; The Fedora Docs Team
:revnumber: F38
:revdate: 2023-08-06
:category: Administration
:tags: How-to 


One of the most common operations that administrators want to accomplish when managing `sudo` permissions is to grant a new user general `sudo` access. This is helpful if you want to give an account full administrative access to the system.

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== Giving a user `sudo` privileges
On Fedora, it is the `wheel` group the user has to be added to, as this group has full admin privileges. Add a user to the group using the following command:
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$ sudo usermod -aG wheel _username_
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If adding the user to the group does not work immediately, you may have to edit the `/etc/sudoers` file to uncomment the line with the group name:

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$ sudo visudo
...
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
...
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You will need to logout and back in for changes to take effect.

