FAQ: Users, Groups, and Permissions in Linux - Elevating Privileges (sudo)

This community-built FAQ covers the “Elevating Privileges (sudo)” exercise from the lesson “Users, Groups, and Permissions in Linux”.

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Introduction to Linux

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I am getting the “sudo: command not found” in bash when trying to add a user with the sudo command.
The sudo package seems to be missing but to install it I need to be logged in as root. How do I do that?

trying the useradd and getting the expected result (wrong permission) does not progress task. Then trying to skip it to task 2 with sudo, we are not allowed to execute command after entering password.