Creating an admin account with Terminal.

[melrokz]

How do I create an 'administrator' account on Ubuntu 12.04 using the command line? Does this convert an ordinary user to an 'administrator' user with all privileges?

sudo adduser melvin
sudo adduser melvin admin

If not, please let me know the right commands. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Got it.

sudo adduser melvin
sudo adduser melvin sudo

That worked for me. Thanks to auronandace

[melrokz]

Please, may I have an update on this?

[smartboyhw]

Mate, there's no admin now, we use only sudo in 12.04.

[melrokz]

No, a standard user gets a message saying that he is not in the sudoers file and that the incident will be reported???

reshmi@melvin-pc:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for reshmi: 
reshmi is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.

[Lars Noodén]

You can use gpasswd to add your user to a group.

sudo gpasswd --add melvin sudo
sudo gpasswd --add melvin adm