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Title: Documentation error "man sudo root" Status in “sudo” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Since Ubuntu 12.04 to add admin privileges to a user the recommended way has been to add them to the sudo group. As described here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo However man page documentation: man sudo root still says ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALLOWING OTHER USERS TO RUN SUDO By default, only the user who installed the system is permitted to run sudo. To add more administrators, i. e. users who can run sudo, you have to add these users to the group 'admin' by doing one of the fol‐ lowing steps: * In a shell, do sudo adduser username admin * Use the graphical "Users & Groups" program in the "System settings" menu to add the new user to the admin group. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've checked documentation for 12.04, 12.10 and the as yet to be released 13.04 all say the same. Should this not be changed to sudo adduser username sudo To match the fact that the first user on a system is now added to "sudo" and not "admin". Also for Ubuntu at least with the default Unity desktop there does not appear to be a "System settings" menu. I suspect there are similar problems later in this file too. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: sudo 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-38.60-generic 3.2.37 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-38-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Feb 20 12:23:06 2013 InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: sudo UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) VisudoCheck: /etc/sudoers: parsed OK To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/1130643/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
