I've added a new user to the group wheel
. I can ssh into the machine with this user and password and confirm that it belongs to that group:
[newuser@xxx.xxx ~]$ groups
newuser wheel
But still, if I try to run anything with root permissions:
[newuser@xxx.xxx ~]$ sudo ls -lt /root
[sudo] password for newuser:
newuser is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
And visudo
confirms that users in the group wheel
should have these permissions:
## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
## Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
All tutorials say that adding a user to this group should be enough. What else do I have to do?
PS: this is a amazon-linux machine
Best Answer
The
wheel
entry in the sudoers file is commented out, so the groupwheel
has no sudo access at all.Remove the
#
from the line: