Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes: > Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 00:38 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : > > 1/ The sudo group in previous Debian releases had a different > > meaning: Members of groups sudo could run sudo without needing a > > password. > > Did it exist in previous releases? I don’t recall seeing it in > sudoers. It's been there as the “exempt from password requirement” group, by using the ‘--with-exempt=sudo’ compile option at least as early as 2002, according to <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/151049>. -- \ “Like the creators of sitcoms or junk food or package tours, | `\ Java's designers were consciously designing a product for | _o__) people not as smart as them.” —Paul Graham | Ben Finney
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