Adding Admin priviledges to an account on Rocky Linux - 229300/SYS265-System-Admin.-Network-Services-II---Spring-2026 GitHub Wiki

Create a new user with my own password

• sudo useradd -m daniel && sudo passwd daniel

Add daniel to the wheel group (Rocky's "admin" group)

• sudo usermod -aG wheel daniel

Change my root account password from champlain password

• sudo passwd root

Change the system hostname to whatever is appropriate

• sudo hostnamectl set-hostname scottVM (or scottCA whichever I want)
• exit

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To add my info type: sudo useradd daniel

• this makes my username = daniel

Type: passwd daniel

• and set info (In Phone Notes)

Next to gain admin privileges type: usermod -aG wheel daniel

Type exit

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For Debian services like Ubuntu

Create a new user with my own password

• sudo useradd -m daniel && sudo passwd daniel

Add daniel to the sudo group (Debian "admin" group)

• sudo usermod -aG sudo daniel

Change my root account password from champlain password

• sudo passwd root

Change the system hostname to whatever is appropriate

• sudo hostnamectl set-hostname scottVM (or scottCA whichever I want)
• exit