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Re: [athena10] sudo

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Jan 22 16:16:29 2009

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From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> By the way, the PolicyKit configuration,
> /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf, is totally independent of sudo and
> should also be considered in this discussion.

Doesn't look like we have to worry there - if I'm reading this right,
PolicyKit gives sudo bits to anyone in the admin group. I was planning
to add people to the admin group using pam_group and add the necessary
line to sudoers.

- Evan

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