Add admin user centos

Here I am going to give admin privilege to a normal user and going to set him as the only user who can switch to root account. For that we need to add the normal user to the wheel group. Wheel is a special administrative group in centos. Now we are going to add the user to the group wheel and for that I am going to use the command usermod. You can find more information about usermod from its man page by typing

[root@server105 ~]# man usermod

I will add the user joji to wheel group and will give admin privilege to him

[root@server105 ~]# usermod -G wheel joji

Now we need to edit the file /etc/pam.d/su to set the user as the only user who can switch to root account

[root@server105 ~]# vi /etc/pam.d/su

Now as mentioned in the file Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group.

#auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid

Now I have Uncommented it

Now I am going to try to switch to root from the user clado

[clado@server105 ~]$ su - root

Password:

su: incorrect password

As you can see I am unable to switch to the root user.

Now am going to try to switch to root from the user joji

[joji@server105 ~]$ su - root

Password:

[root@server105 ~]#

As you can see I am able to switch to the root user successfully.

That's all folks Enjoy