Add Sudoers in debian

Open the Terminal
- Click "Activities"
- Click in the "Type to search..." box
- Type in "Terminal" and press the [enter] key

Switch to root user
- Type in the Terminal the following command

$ su
- then press [enter]
- now type in the root password and press [enter]
- The command prompt should now look like this...
root@debian:/home/yourusernamehere#

Install "sudo"
- Now that you are root user within the Terminal lets install "sudo"
- Type in the following command...
$ apt-get install sudo
- then press [enter]

Add your username to the sudo group
- Type in the following command...
$ adduser yourusernamehere sudo
- then press [enter]Log Out

Now add your name to /etc/sudoers file
- Type in the following command...
$ nano /etc/sudoers
- then press [enter]
- Scroll down and look for the line "%sudo  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL"
- Below that line type in the following...
yourusernamehere  ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
- Press "Ctrl+x" then press "y" and then press [enter] to exit and save the file

Now we exit out of the Terminal completely
- Type in the following command...
exit
- then press [enter]
- Type exit again...
exit
- then press [enter]
- That should have closed the Terminal application

Now let's open a new Terminal and test to see if sudo is working for your user name
- Click "Activities"
- Click in the "Type to search..." box
- Type in "Terminal" and press the [enter] key
- Test sudo by typing the following command...
$ sudo ls
- then press [enter]
- type in your password and press [enter]

- If the output looks like the following...
yourusernamehere is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
- then you might have to start from the beginning of these instructions and try again.

- If the output looks like this...
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
- Your username now has sudo rights, congratulations!