Re: sudoers vs admin group
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 04:10:41PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> Is there any (significant) difference between editing (adding a user
> to) the _/etc/sudoers_ file and adding a person to the _admin
> group?_ Am I comparing apples and oranges?
Yes, it's different.
The admin group is a normal UNIX group. It confers no privileges
by itself other than the ability to read/write admin-group
files.
If /etc/sudo is configured to treat the admin group specially -- then
additional privileges may accrue from that.
However, it's more usual to create a sudo group, or a wheel
group, for those purposes.
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