How do I provide a user root privileges in Ubuntu Core 16

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How do I provide a user root privileges in Ubuntu Core 16. All most all the important files are read only even if I login as a sudo user. I am unable to edit visodo file as well. I wanted to add more admin users to manage the Ubuntu Core 16

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take a look into /etc/sudoers.d/ … also note that you need to use adduser with the --extrausers flag when adding a user so it writes to a writable user db …

note though that by design Ubuntu Core is not built as a multi user commandline system but rather as a base to build a product on top of it (appliances, a TV box, a router, a digital signage kiosk or point of sale system, whatever you imagine), not so much as a server to log in to with many users … (which indeed doesnt mean you can not do it for i.e. a development system, but it is not really the main purpose of Ubuntu Core … )

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Hi Ogra,

I have already created user with --extrausers flag but looks like /etc/sudoers.d/ is in read only mode. I wanted to make another user as sudo user so that by chance if we forget the password, at least we have another user with root privilege to login

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the user you created with the setup wizard on first boot should already have a file in /etc/sudoers.d (which is rw) that you can inspect and use in modified form for other users …