Ah sudo, one of my favourites, funnily enough I’ve noticed a lot of Linux users use sudo (mainly because Ubuntu installs and configures your first user by default,) but very few seem to know that much about it. This can include not even knowing how to add a user to sudoers.
This article will give you some useful information on what sudo actually is, how to configure it and how to restrict it.
What is sudo?
So, quickly running man sudo gives us some information what sudo actually is and does.
sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file. The real and effective uid and gid are set to match those of the target user as specified in the passwd file and the group vector is initialized based on the group file (unless the -P option …