Thanks all for the usefull feedback.
I was finding many related tutorials from popular searchengines some
using the method to add to the group and others editing /etc/sudoers
I think the remarks made put the issue in the correct perspective and
wiki change is more correct.
I'll refreshed my wiki creds. I'll try to use it. Just wasnt sure for that.
Alexandros
On 9/12/19 12:03 μ.μ., Ansgar wrote:
aprekates writes:
In https://wiki.debian.org/sudo it says:
In order for a user to run sudo, the user must belong to group=sudo.
But i see that adding a line in /etc/sudoers can allow me execute sudo
without being in the sudo group.
Do i miss sth or the wiki miss sth?
The Wiki isn't correct. Debian's default configuration of sudo allows
all users in the `sudo` group to run whatever they want:
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
But any other use of sudo, that is any custom rules, doesn't require the
user to be in the `sudo` group.
I've updated the Wiki to say
Debian's default configuration allows users in the sudo group to run
any command via sudo.
instead. Please remember that anyone can improve it ;-)
Ansgar