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

Matthew Monaco dgbaley27 at verizon.net
Tue Sep 7 19:18:10 EDT 2010


On 09/07/2010 03:13 AM, Allan McRae 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"...
>
> Allan
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Are we going to get sudo in the filesystem package?


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