Users and Groups administration tool

[Nick Loeve]

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Nathan Sprangers [2005-03-17 20:47 -0500]:
> 
>>On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:49:11 -0500, Nis <dlist at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>To make this change you don't really have to reinstall.  Just add the
>>>admin group and add yourself to it, remove your username from sudoers
>>>(optional), and add %admin to sudoers.  I do agree that this would be
>>>nice to add to the upgrade but maybe there is some potentially
>>>dangerous problem doing this automatically.  The addition of the admin
>>>group and change in sodoers does allow more than one admin user and an
>>>easy way to change this through the "Users and Groups" tool.
>>
>>Is there any way a script that does this be run when upgrading from
>>Warty  to Hoary?  I'm not sure how that would happen, maybe be part of
>>the sudo package's configuration?
> 
> 
> Automatically touching security relevant files like sudoers is
> generally not a good idea. Admins might keep the current configuration
> for a reason. So the best thing we can offer is to put a detailled
> explanation into the upgrade notes.
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 


I have not been paying close attention to this thread, but if someone 
writes me some instructions, i can add them to the release notes (which 
has an upgrade notes section)

cheers,
trickie (Nick Loeve)