Account Setup

This section takes care of these things:

  • Creating a new root password
  • Creating a new user with the following things:
    • A home directory
    • Membership in the "wheel" group
    • A new password
  • Permit the "wheel" group to use sudo

Steps

  1. Set root password: passwd
  2. Create user: useradd -G wheel -m <user-name>
  3. Set new user password: passwd <user-name>
  4. Grant wheel group sudo access: echo "%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers