Debian: Install Sudo

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1. Install sudo
   • apt install sudo -y
2. Edit sudoers via sudo visudo adding the below line to the file.
   • <username> ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
3. Check the access under the defined <username>. The file should resemble the below.

 #
 # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
 #
 # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
 # directly modifying this file.
 #
 # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
 #
 Defaults        env_reset
 Defaults        mail_badpass
 Defaults        secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
 
 # Host alias specification
 
 # User alias specification
 
 # Cmnd alias specification
 
 # User privilege specification
 root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
 <username> ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
 
 # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
 %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
 
 # See sudoers(5) for more information on "@include" directives:
 
 @includedir /etc/sudoers.d