Group 'admin' gid problem

[Edward Lee]

Fair enough, and I just tried your solution.  The problem with it is
that some graphical elements of GNOME seem to depend on the user
being in the 'admin' group.  For example, the Main Menu tool only
shows/allows to be checked 'Add/Remove Programs' and 'Software Sources'
when the user is present in the 'admin' group.  It's not a showstopper,
but it's really annoying at times.

-Ed

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 11:26 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Edward Lee wrote:
> > My issue with this is that the 'admin' group, which is used by sudo to
> > control who can administer the system as root, is not one of those
> > groups < 100.
> 
> But that's just a matter of configuration in the sudoers file. You could
> reconfigure it to trust a fixed group of your choice as well / instead.
> 
> 
> > BTW, why are there two 'administrator' groups -> 'adm' and 'admin'?
> 
> adm is not an administrator group per se - its purpose is to grant
> read-only access to "administrative information" (i.e. /var/log/
> logfiles) that otherwise only root has access to.
> 
> Max.
>