No GUI way to add another user to be able to sudo
Bug #8586 reported by
Ryan Thiessen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Sivan Greenberg |
Bug Description
When installing Ubuntu the initial user is put into the /etc/sudoers file, which
is great. However there doesn't seem to be a way to add another user to this
file through the GUI -- only by using visudo which isn't very user friendly.
Possible solution:
There is already a group "sudo" on a default Ubuntu install, perhaps if you
added a line "%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL" in the default install of /etc/sudoers, the
user could just add another account to the group "sudo" in the users GUI and
they would be able to use sudo as well.
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I think the reporter's suggestion makes a lot of sense here, as the ony other
change needed would be to add another "User Privilege" for "Gain adminstrator
privileges" or similar in users-admin.