# Add user to SUDO group **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\ **Created:** [September 18, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-user-to-sudo-group/28662 "2016-09-18T14:18:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kamakay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9d8465/32.png) [@kamakay](https://forums.suse.com/u/kamakay)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-user-to-sudo-group/28662/1 "2016-09-18T14:18:33Z")
Dear all I am a newbye on Suse coming from ubuntu and I would like to add a brand new user to a specific group. In ubuntu i run sudo groupadd myuser sudo useradd -g mygroup mygroup # add the user to sudoers sudo adduser myuser sudo but on SLES adduser is not found… How can I accmplish this only with command ? (I am using this command sequence in a scirpt) ---
**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-user-to-sudo-group/28662/2 "2016-09-18T18:25:12Z")
When you add a user to a group, you’re really modifying a group, so user the groupmod command: ```auto groupmod -A username groupname ``` – Good luck. If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, show your appreciation and click on the star below… ---
**Author:** ![kamakay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9d8465/32.png) [@kamakay](https://forums.suse.com/u/kamakay)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-user-to-sudo-group/28662/3 "2016-09-19T10:06:48Z")
Thanks! As far as I have understood ubuntu has out of the box “sudo” group, SLES no. So I need also to create sudo group 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-user-to-sudo-group/28662/4 "2016-09-19T15:48:38Z")
\On 09/19/2016 01:14 AM, kamakay wrote:[color=blue] > Thanks! > > As far as I have understood ubuntu has out of the box “sudo” group, SLES > no. > > So I need also to create sudo group[/color] SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) has always been targeted at the enterprise, and servers of course, where the first user setup (other than ‘root’) may or may not be a user who should be privileged, so as a result it is not configured to make that user insanely-powerful. Ubuntu’s history has come from the desktop side of things, so the first user is usually sudo-enabled to do whatever they want provided they can prefix that something with ‘sudo’ (or equivalent). If you want your user to be powerful there are a few ways to do it, but in the end the sudo packages are pretty similar and it’s just the /etc/sudoers file that is (I believe) different, so you could even use the same configuration file (with appropriate name/group changes as applicable) on either system. SLES, by default, allows any user to use ‘sudo’ to do something provided they know the ‘root’ user’s password. This can be changed to be more like Unbuntu by commenting out the following two lines in the /etc/sudoers file: ```auto Defaults targetpw # ask for the password of the target user i.e. root ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING! Only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'! ``` After commenting that out you need to grant rights to anybody who uses ‘sudo’ explicitly, which can be done either by adding somebody to the OS’s ‘wheel’ group (built-in group) and then uncommenting the following line in /etc/sudoers, or by doing manual things as you could do with any distribution: ```auto # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL ``` The line above simply states that a member of the OS ‘wheel’ group can do anything on any box as anybody, but they still need to enter a password. – Good luck. If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, show your appreciation and click on the star below…