Add User to Wheel Group

Published on December 21, 2010, by in linux, sysadmin.




To add a user to the wheel group, simply issue this command:

sudo gpasswd -a bob wheel

In this example the username is ‘bob’. The output will return:

Adding user bob to group wheel



Sweet!

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