Creating an Admin user After Installation on UBuntu - from the CLI

Question

I would like to manually add a new user to my Ubuntu 12.04 box with admin privileges.

This is what I did so far:

adduser 
adduser  admin, sudo

Edited the sudoers file with visudoers:

# User alias specification
...
User_Alias ADMINS = 
 ...
# User privilege specification

...
 ALL=(ALL) ALL 
...

I then logged in with the new user, but every time I try to run a command (like visudoers) it says the command is not found. when I "echo $PATH" the /bin/sbin directory is not in the path.

Is there a similar command to adduser but for admin users (so it copies the root user skeleton at the end (copy /etc/skel)? How do I manually create a user like the one I create as the first user when installing Ubuntu?

Answer 1

You need to add that to the users path in either .profile or .bashrc. Or, make them call sudo by the full path, which is much safer.

Comments

In case I wasnt clear: After doing the changes, this is what I get:

$ sudo visudoers
sudo: visudo: command not found

When entering the command, I was able to use autocomplete (by pressing the TAB key), so I guess it knows the command exists...What do you mean by "make the call sudo by the full path"?