Subscribing Marc as he seems to be largely maintaining this and made the original changes and has been keeping the delta. Hopefully he can provide some insight.
Seems this is a delta to Debian that is being kept intentionally for a long time, it's frequently in the changelog even in the most recent Debian merge. I'd have thought if we kept this in here by default we probably should have kept a default 'admin' group with no members but it's a bit late for that at this point. - debian/sudoers: + also grant admin group sudo access Also seems this change was originally made in 2014: sudo (1.8.9p5-1ubuntu3) vivid; urgency=medium * debian/patches/also_check_sudo_group.diff: also check the sudo group in plugins/sudoers/sudoers.c to create the admin flag file. Leave the admin group check for backwards compatibility. (LP: #1387347) -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:55:34 -0400 sudo (1.8.9p5-1ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium * debian/sudo_root.8: mention sudo group instead of deprecated group admin (LP: #1130643) -- Andrey Bondarenko <abondare...@users.sourceforge.net> Sat, 23 Aug 2014 01:18:05 +0600 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1339518 Title: sudo config file specifies group "admin" that doesn't exist in system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/1339518/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs