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. -dsr- -- http://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130430214128.gx27...@randomstring.org
