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[Michael R Head]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 19:52 +0100, paul cooke wrote:
> >
> 
> correct, to give any other user the ability to sudo, you have to edit the 
> sudoers list using the special program visudo.

incorrect, ubuntu (at least when installed hoary) creates a sudoers file
with the following line:
    # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
    %admin  ALL=(ALL) ALL

So all you need to do is 
  $ sudo adduser otherguy admin
(or use the users and groups administration tool)
and 'otherguy' will be able to sudo when next he logs in.

mike

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