sudo allow normal user to run commands as user root.

By default users in groups “sudo” and “admin” can use sudo on Debian/Ubuntu. On CentOS/RHEL group name is “wheel”.

You can edit sudo permissions for user/group with command

visudo

visudo store files in /etc/sudoers file.

Allow a normal user to run all commands with sudo

USERNAME_HERE ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Replace USERNAME_HERE with actual username of the user you want to give sudo privileges. Another way is to add this user to group sudo, both are same.

Allow a normal user to use sudo with out password prompt

USERNAME_HERE ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Allow a normal user to run specific command as user root

To allow user with name “hoston” to use mount command, add following in visudo

hoston ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /bin/mount

Here NOPASSWD means user will not get any password prompt.