6 Granting sudo Access to Users

In Oracle Linux, only administrators can perform privileged tasks on the system.

To grant users extra privileges, an administrator can use the visudo command to either create a configuration file in the /etc/sudoers.d directory or change the /etc/sudoers file directly.

Privileges that an administrator assigns by adding configuration files in the /etc/sudoers.d directory are preserved between system upgrades and skipped automatically by the sudo command if they're invalid. Administrators can also change file ownership and permissions for each configuration file. For more information, see Adding User Authorizations in the sudoers.d Directory.

For information on assigning privileges by editing the /etc/sudoers file directly, see Adding User Authorizations in the sudoers File.