configuring sudo by default (was: Re: Today's (9/12) rawhide all users = unable to authenticate user!)

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Sep 17 23:35:03 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:47:25AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Augeas ?  /etc/sudoers.d/ ?  It's not like we haven't solved the problem
> of 'complicated and picky syntax' before...

It could be done, but /etc/sudoers.d still might have odd interactions with
the main file, and in any case it'd be a certain amount of work which might
not get accepted upstream. Meanwhile, group approach works right now and
requires a one character change to an existing config file.

Developing a special sudoers.d directory also doesn't automatically work
with userhelper/consolehelper -- which the group solution does. (And
PolicyKit can work off group membership too, right?)

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences




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