https://www.tecmint.com/add-users-in-linux/ useradd username also creates user & home dir (better use this command) adduser username To grant sudo privileges to a user type (as root user): usermod -a -G sudo username Change user su - username Open Sudoers file ( /etc/sudoers.d/ ) sudo visudo Set no sudo passwords in sudoers.d (at end of file) username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL As a regular user with sudo privileges, you can delete a user using this syntax: sudo deluser --remove-home username