** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Committed
** Summary changed:
- Documentation error man sudo root
+ Documentation error man sudo_root
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Title:
Documentation error man sudo root
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andy@fileserver:/etc$ cat ./group | egrep 'sudo|admin'
sudo:x:27:andy
lpadmin:x:107:andy
andy@fileserver:/etc$ groups
andy adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare apt-get
andy@fileserver:/etc$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = New
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Bug was incorrectly flagged as invalid. As there are now 3 users
(including myself) stating that this is a bug and does not appear to be
a duplicate needs to be marked confirmed.
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Marking triaged/medium. The 'sudo_root' man page needs some updates. It
would be nice to have a re-wording of the file. Patches welcome.
** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
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The manpage sudo_root.8 seems completely outdated to me.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/sudo/raring/files/head:/debian/
shows that even in the raring development source its last update was made with
Rev 14, dated 2006-08-23 18:05:48 UTC.
Different from the other
To let other users use 'sudo' open up a terminal and use 'visudo' (sudo
visudo)
This will allow you to add other users and groups to use the sudo command
or adding them to the admin group (see /etc/sudoers) will by default
allow root privlages.
** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Status: New
The bug is not that the sudo command does not work. It does.
The bug is that the man page for it is incorrect. Specifically man
sudo_root which is supplied by the sudo package.
It advises as a means to disable sudo and return to a traditional root
logon modifying /etc/sudoers via to remove
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Status: Invalid = Incomplete
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** Description changed:
Since Ubuntu 12.04 to add admin privileges to a user the recommended way
has been to add them to the sudo group. As described here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
However man page documentation: man sudo root
still says
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** Description changed:
Since Ubuntu 12.04 to add admin privileges to a user the recommended way
has been to add them to the sudo group. As described here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
However man page documentation: man sudo root
still says
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