Re: exploring debian's users and groups
joeyh@debian.org (Joey Hess) writes:
> HELP: I notice that /etc/news/leafnode/config and even /etc/news
> are here owned by news.news. Which is odd, because those
> arn't things the programs should be editing on the fly. What
> gives?
With respect to /etc/news, I shrug.
> backup:
>
> HELP: ?
Used by amanda so the backup system can run non-root.
> sudo:
>
> HELP: Nothing uses it here, and I have sudo installed.. Maybe
> there's a way to only let users in this group use sudo?
Well documented in the sudo docs... any user added to group sudo gets sudo
privs without the usual prompting for a password, among other things.
Bdale
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