Create a non-root user with sudo privileges

Creating a non-root user with sudo privileges couldn’t be any easier.

In this example, we’ll be using Ubuntu Server as our operating system but the process is pretty much the same for any Linux-based operating system.

Create a new non-root user

First, we’ll create a new user

sudo adduser trywithpi

Replace trywithpi with your preferred username.

Then, we’ll add the newly created user to the sudo group by using the following command

sudo adduser trywithpi sudo

To verify our changes, we can run

id trywithpi

If the response contains 27(sudo), you’ve successfully created a non-root user with sudo privileges.

That’s it.