How do I create an administrator user on Ubuntu?

First, create the user with: You can read more about this command in the man pages of your system with . You can then add a user to the group with with the command: Note that versions of Ubuntu until 11.10 will use as group instead of : Until Ubuntu 11.10, the Unix group for administrators with root privileges through sudo had been admin. Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, it is now sudo, for compatibility with Debian and sudo itself. However, for backwards compatibility, admin group members are s…