[arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 08:13, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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"...

Even though wheel is historic[1] I agree that sudo is a better name
for the group.

/M

[1]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wheel_%28Unix_term%29

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