Grant administrative privileges to user on Ubuntu server

When you create a new user on Ubuntu, it does not have administrative privileges by default. On Linux in general, administrative privileges mean the user can execute commands via the sudo command, elevating their privileges to the root user for that command.

To grant administrative privileges, all we need to do is add the user to the sudo group.

usermod -aG sudo deployer

sudo usermod -aG sudo deployer

Replace deployer with your actual username

That’s it. You can now type ‘sudo’ before any command to run it with root privileges.