Debian 7 - Add Sudo!

When creating a fresh installation of Debian 7, you may notice that your sudo commands wont work. Run the following steps to allow sudo to work from a non-root user.

Steps

Login as root and install sudo capabilities:

apt-get install sudo

Now add the user you want to have sudo priveleges

adduser $MY_SUBUSER sudo

For example:

adduser programster sudo

You can now log in as that user and run updates etc by just entering your own password.