Comments on: How to enable sudo on Debian 11/ 10?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:20:55 +0000

The problem with is it’s best practice not to do anything as root directly – so if we did elect to have a different root password, it still makes sense to configure the user in the sudoers automatically. Similar to the best practice of NOT editing important configuration files in a normal editor. You know the joke, don’t drink and root: rm -rf /

By: Алексей

Алексей — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:08:27 +0000

Well, first of all you don’t need to install and configure sudo if you actually *read* what the Debian Installer tells you. When asking to set root password it explicitly says that you can leave it blank, and then the root account will be locked, and the user you add later on will be configured to use sudo by default.

Then, manually editing /etc/sudoers is not needed – just add your user to the ‘sudo’ group with:
# adduser sudo

Finally, *DO NOT* edit /etc/sudoers strait with an editor! One mistake – and you may be locked out of using sudo, and if the root account is already locked, you’re screwed. Use ‘visudo’ – it checks if your edits are correct before applying them.

By: angeloma

angeloma — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 01:17:08 +0000

In reply to gustay. Thanks for your comment!

By: gustay

gustay — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:28:00 +0000

Thank you …this was the only working tutorial i found in the web …a big shame on debian forums because they making bashing against each other …but no useful information.
it seems Debian is on a wrong way…they like to be like ubuntu or some other “userfriedly” distribution
now in debian buster they use clear the wrong way ….they force the user to change their habits
Before i found your tutorial i was close to remove debian 10 from the hard drive and install free bsd because its much simpler as the modern garbage in debian 10.
in a car i like to crank the window per hand ..its simple and useful …no electronics can fail and in a operating system i like also the simple and stupid methodes to administrate everything. But what should i do when they remove the god old simple things ?…throw the computer out of the window ?
sorry for my emotional comment,but i work the whole evening on this silly ..sudo problem…wastig time
and sorry for my bad english
thank you again an good bye

By: VIMU

VIMU — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:37:07 +0000

Than you very much very help full!!!