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Create/detele User, Group and Make it sudo

Ubuntu 16.04

Create 

1. Create Users and Group
$ sudo adduser username

2. Give sudo granted

$ sudo usermod -aG sudo username

3. Test sudo

$ su - username

4. Run sudo commands

$ sudo ls -la /root 

Delete User

1. del Users

$ sudo deluser username

2. Delete home directory

$ deluser --remove-home newuser

Delete Group

1. del Group

$ sudo groupdel groupname

Done. Restart and login to ur new account.

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