Adding sudo permissions to additional user

[Derek Broughton]

David Fletcher wrote:

> On Sunday 25 May 2008, Cary Bielenberg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     My daughter came to me tonight & said she was over Windows what
>> could I do but give her Kubuntu :-)  She is delighted & is happily
>> chatting in Kopete. I was going to show her how to add software but she
>> cant sudo as it denies her password. Does anyone no how to give her sudo
>> functionality?
> 
> System settings - user management - administrator mode - select user -
> modify. Make the user part of the admin group to enable software
> installation.
> 
> This also enables the empowered user to do everything else, of course! Are
> you sure you want somebody else to be able to act as god on your computer?

Or you just use visudo to give her access to "aptitude", "apt-get" or
whatever graphical package management you prefer, if you want to let her
install packages.
-- 
derek