How to Make a User an Administrator in Ubuntu | Linux Today

How to Make a User an Administrator in Ubuntu

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Karim Buzdar
Oct 30, 2018

In this article, we will describe how to make a user an Administrator through the Graphical User Interface and also explain what commands to use in the command line in order to add a user to the sudo (authorized) user group.

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Karim Buzdar

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