Why does the group admin exist?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:42:12PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> I just realised that on one of my Ubunt machines (I have two) the group
> admin exists and the sudoers file contained
> 
>  %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
> 
> On the other machine the group did not exist, and insted the first user
> created (during install) had an entry in the sudoers file.
> 
> Where does the difference come from?

The first machine was a fresh Hoary install, and the second was upgraded
from Warty. We introduced the admin group in Hoary, but messing with
people's existing /etc/sudoers files was just too hairy to contemplate.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]