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Expand Up @@ -83,7 +83,12 @@ Set another ridiculously long password and store it in my local password manager

## Customize sudoers

The `sudo` utility will enable my normal user account to run commands, modify files, etc. with root user privileges, but I want to modify the default sudoers config:
The `sudo` utility will enable my normal user account to run commands, modify files, etc. with root user privileges. It's possible that your VPS doesn't have `sudo` installed by default, for example if it's Debian, so logged in as root you must install the `sudo` utility using the command

# apt install sudo
...

I want to modify the default sudoers config:

# visudo
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