A: Beyond simply editing /etc/group with your favorite text editor, adding a user to the wheel group can be achieved in a few different ways.

To place a user in the wheel account when her account is first created, you would run

   $ sudo useradd -G wheel jdoe

 
Note: The above also creates the jdoe group automatically, use the -g argument if you wish her default group to be different.

If the user already exists and you wish to add her to the wheel group, you would run

   $ sudo user mod -G wheel jdoe