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Bug#1136732: please consider adding a sudoers.d snippet

From Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject Bug#1136732: please consider adding a sudoers.d snippet
Date 2026-05-15 17:10 +0200
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On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 02:11:50PM +0200, john doe wrote:
>>That way, sudo could put the respective line
>>%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL↲
>>in a comment in the default configuration file, making things a bit more
>>secure on fresh installation.
>>
>
>How will it make it more secure, it's simply moving a line around!

A system that had a root password set on installation will not have a 
sudo rule for the (then-empty) sudo group at all.

OpenSUSE does it this way as well.

Greetings
Marc

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Bug#1136732: please consider adding a sudoers.d snippet Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> - 2026-05-15 14:00 +0200
  Bug#1136732: please consider adding a sudoers.d snippet Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> - 2026-05-15 17:10 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1136732: please consider adding a sudoers.d  snippet "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2026-05-15 20:30 +0200
  Bug#1136732: please consider adding a sudoers.d snippet Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2026-05-15 20:30 +0200
    Bug#1136732: please consider adding a sudoers.d snippet Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> - 2026-05-15 21:10 +0200
      Bug#1136732: please consider adding a sudoers.d snippet Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2026-05-16 22:20 +0200

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