** 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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALLOWING OTHER USERS TO RUN SUDO - By default, only the user who installed the system is permitted to run - sudo. To add more administrators, i. e. users who can run sudo, you - have to add these users to the group 'admin' by doing one of the fol‐ - lowing steps: + By default, only the user who installed the system is permitted to run + sudo. To add more administrators, i. e. users who can run sudo, you + have to add these users to the group 'admin' by doing one of the fol‐ + lowing steps: - * In a shell, do + * In a shell, do - sudo adduser username admin + sudo adduser username admin - * Use the graphical "Users & Groups" program in the "System settings" - menu to add the new user to the admin group. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - I've checked documentation for 12.04, 12.10 and the as yet to be released 13.04 - all say the same. + * Use the graphical "Users & Groups" program in the "System settings" + menu to add the new user to the admin group. + ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + I've checked documentation for 12.04, 12.10 and the as yet to be released 13.04 all say the same. Should this not be changed to - sudo adduser username sudo + sudo adduser username sudo To match the fact that the first user on a system is now added to "sudo" and not "admin". I suspect there are similar problems later in this file too. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: sudo 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-38.60-generic 3.2.37 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-38-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Feb 20 12:23:06 2013 InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: - LANGUAGE=en_GB:en - TERM=xterm - PATH=(custom, no user) - LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + LANGUAGE=en_GB:en + TERM=xterm + PATH=(custom, no user) + LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: sudo UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) VisudoCheck: /etc/sudoers: parsed OK
** Tags added: manpage ** Tags added: quantal ** Tags added: raring -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1130643 Title: Documentation error "man sudo root" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/1130643/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
