Installing software in user friendly way

[Henning Kilset Pedersen]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 07:46 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:38:25PM +0200, Henning Kilset Pedersen wrote:
> > That explains quite a lot about my own problems. So all members of the
> > admin group essentially have full root privileges as long as they type
> > sudo infront of anything?? 
> 
> There's no admin group. OS X has an admin group, but Linux
> does not. (It probably should, actually. Another topic for
> another time.)

Yes there is, in ubuntu. From my /etc/passwd file:

admin:x:109:henning

> When you install Ubuntu, you are added to the /etc/sudoers
> file -- which means you can now run 'sudo commandName'.
> Since you're now in that file, you can now run 'sudo visudo'
> and add other people to the list of sudoers. All and only
> those people in /etc/sudoers have root privileges.

The *admin group* is added to the sudoers file, at least in 5.04 (Hoary
Hedgehog).

The first user (as seen above - henning is the first user) is
automagically added to the admin group.

Regards,
Henning