On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 16:48 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > If we decide to reject 'admin', I think we should use sudo. I find the > argument that admin is confusing given the presence of adm fairly > convincing -- It's all too easy to say something like "could you add > fred to the adm group" over the phone and pronounce 'adm' as 'admin'. At work we use "admin" to hold all administrative staff (think paperwork) so I would vote against that. > Sadly, we are not the first to make this decision though, and having > admin on Ubuntu and sudo on Debian would be a pain for people that have > mixed sites, or even for admins that just have access to some of each. The admin group is already used in update-notifier though (#502392) and perhaps also other software coming from Ubuntu. -- -- arthur - adejong@debian.org - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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