On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:

> Jeffrey Walton (HE12025-02-20):
> >        and members of sudo can run any command.
>
> Is it because of this last line:
>
> >     root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
> >
> >     sudo    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Root is the user account, %sudo is the sudo group.


>
> ? But does it mean the previous one gives sudo privileges to all members
> of the root group? Or is it that the last line gives sudo privileges to
> the sudo user, not group?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>   Nicolas George
>
>

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