Installing software in user friendly way

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:54:50PM +0200, Henning Kilset Pedersen wrote:
> Yes there is, in ubuntu. From my /etc/passwd file:
> 
> admin:x:109:henning
[snip]
> The *admin group* is added to the sudoers file, at least in 5.04 (Hoary
> Hedgehog).

Huh. I haven't observed this behavior. Is this something
that others have seen? Maybe if you *upgraded* to Hoary, you
don't get that group added.

If Ubuntu behaves this way by default now, I think it's
smart. Under OS X (and this is the point I was going to
make), /etc/sudoers contains a line for '%admin'; then when
you add someone to the admin group through the GUI, they're
sudoers automatically. OS X users almost never have to think
about /etc/sudoers -- which is a good thing.

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