Greg Wooledge: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 06:31:46PM +0000, Joe wrote: >> Debian appears to use the group 'sudo' as an administrative group, >> where some other distributions use 'wheel'. >> >> I would not have thought that users would be added to it by default, >> there are no members on my sid/xfce4 workstation. Indeed, up to Jessie, >> sudo was not installed at all by default, and may still not be. > > If you use the regular Debian installer, the user account that you > create during installation gets added to a lot of these special groups > (sudo, cdrom, floppy, audio, video, ...?). Users that you create > post-installtion using adduser or useradd do not.
On an Debian-lxde installer you are asked for a root pass and then a username/pass As I remember before you manually add a user in the user group the sudo command results to error. Before I figured it out I had to use su instead and any admin-package required user:root and pass to run. After adding a user in the sudo list all such packages ask for the user's pass. I think it is a sensible policy. -- "The most violent element in society is ignorance" rEG