[arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?
Allan McRae
allan at archlinux.org
Tue Sep 7 03:13:51 EDT 2010
On 07/09/10 16:22, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Got the sudo update with the new sudoers file, Noticed new %sudo group
> designation along with the traditional %wheel:
>
> ## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command
> # %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
>
> Any reason that we would want a sudo group instead of using wheel?
>
Upstream made the change so it is just being passed along. No idea why
but "sudo" does seem a better name for a group of sudoers than "wheel"...
Allan
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