Which of the following commands should a technician use to create an administrative account for the username Joe?

The correct answer is A. sudo useradd -G wheel joe. The -G wheel option adds the user joe to the wheel group, which is a special group that allows users to execute administrative commands using sudo. This is the correct way to create a user with administrative privileges in many Linux distributions, including Red Hat-based ones.

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Asudo useradd -G wheel joe
Bsudo useradd joe; sudo passwd -l joe
Csudo useradd joe; sudo cat key.pem > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Dsudo useradd joe; groupadd admin joe

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The -G wheel option adds the user joe to the wheel group, which is a special group that allows users to execute administrative commands using sudo. This is the correct way to create a user with administrative privileges in many Linux distributions, including Red Hat-based ones.

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#useradd#group management#sudo privileges#account creation

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