Add A New User To Root Access (sudo/visudo)

I'm installing Debian on my workstation and just wanted to pass this along.

Whenever I go through my usually routine of an OS install, I do a few certain things automatically, right off the bat.

In a windows environment I change all the shiney button to the Windows Classic theme, make all directory views to "details", uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types" and (depending upon the user to whom I'm deploying the machine I usally allow for hidden files to be show. I work in an engineering company and those guys, for the most part, know how to get around between a keyboard and their chair.

The one thing I tend to forget when installing a new Gnu/Linux machine (my flavor of choice is Debian).

I've always come across the problem that Debian doesn't add the first created user with the ability to sudo.

To solve this, we must go through the folowing procedure. It's easy, but for some reason it tends to slip my mind until I start apt-getting software.

Here's the process:
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• Type 'visudo'
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and add the following line
• 'user ALL=(ALL) ALL' where [user] equals the user name.
• Close visudo and save it

All set.

See the above picture for exactly how it should appear.