Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

[Teodor MICU <mteodor@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Ian Jackson
<ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Carsten Hey writes ("Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges"):
>> A group named sudo or sudoroot is somehow linked to sudo as tool used to
>> gain administrative privileges.  No one knows if in future an other tool
>> will be the de facto standard to gain privileges, as sudo is now, and
>> having a group sudoroot whose members are allowed to gain to become root
>> using an imaginary suto command sounds wrong.
>
> Speaking as the author of a program ("really") which would also want
> to use the same group, I have no problem at all with a group name
> which mentions sudo specifically.  This is probably the best way to
> ensure that the name is meaningful and not used elsewhere for
> something else.
>
> "sudoroot" is better than "sudo", as there already is a sudo group and
> therefore people may already be using it for something else.

I'm proposing to use 'sysadmins' (plural as 'users') since its kinda
short and commonly accepted for this purpose on job announcements.

Thanks