can't run admin commands after expert install

Jukka Salmi j+ubuntu at 2006.salmi.ch
Tue May 9 08:30:05 UTC 2006


xenmax, Ptero-4, thanks for the replies.

After reading the thread xenmax gave I compared an Ubuntu expert mode
installation to a non-expert mode installation, and indeed the only
difference I found were:

- the `admin' group only existing in the non-expert mode install
- the sudoers file allowing admin group members to execute all commands

Thus, after installing Ubuntu in expert mode, to allow regular users
to run admin tools one needs to

	$ su -
	[ enter root password ]
	# groupadd admin
	# visudo
	[add this line:]
	%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
	:wq

Done.

BTW, instead of the sudoers line given above one could also add

	%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

To disable the password prompts... ;-)


Cheers, Jukka

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