[Bug 1130643] Re: Documentation error "man sudo root"

[Manfred Hampl]

The manpage sudo_root.8 seems completely outdated to me.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/sudo/raring/files/head:/debian/ shows that even in the raring development source its last update was made with Rev 14, dated 2006-08-23 18:05:48 UTC.
Different from the other sudo-related manpages whose source is in the doc directory and which are rebuilt from *.man.in sources (with last modification in Nov. 2012), the sudo_root manpage is a fixed text in the debian directory, and as far as I can see, only existing in Ubuntu, and not in Debian.

Also in my opinion this is a bug, clicking 'also affects me'.

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Title:
  Documentation error "man sudo root"

Status in “sudo” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Since Ubuntu 12.04 to add admin privileges to a user the recommended
  way has been to add them to the sudo group.   As described here
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

  However man page documentation: man sudo root

  still says
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ALLOWING OTHER USERS TO RUN SUDO
         By  default, only the user who installed the system is permitted to run
         sudo. To add more administrators, i. e. users who  can  run  sudo,  you
         have  to  add these users to the group 'admin' by doing one of the fol‐
         lowing steps:

         * In a shell, do

             sudo adduser username admin

         * Use the graphical "Users & Groups" program in the  "System  settings"
           menu to add the new user to the admin group.
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  I've checked documentation for 12.04, 12.10 and the as yet to be released 13.04 all say the same.

  Should this not be changed to

              sudo adduser username sudo

  To match the fact that the first user on a system is now added to
  "sudo" and not "admin".

  Also for Ubuntu at least with the default Unity desktop there does not
  appear to be a "System settings" menu.

  I suspect there are similar problems later in this file too.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: sudo 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-38.60-generic 3.2.37
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-38-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Feb 20 12:23:06 2013
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: sudo
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  VisudoCheck: /etc/sudoers: parsed OK

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