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| Warren Hill (warren-hill) wrote Re: Documentation error "man sudo root" | #3 |
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The bug is not that the sudo command does not work. It does.
The bug is that the man page for it is incorrect. Specifically "man sudo_root" which is supplied by the sudo package.
It advises as a means to disable sudo and return to a traditional root logon modifying /etc/sudoers via to remove the admin group.
This is not a recomended thing to do and perhaps the man page should not provide a way to do this at all but given that it does it should be correct.
If you follow the instructions in 12.04 or later these instructions do not work as administator users are not added to the "admin" group but the "sudo" group.
man pages are still relevant and wrong information in them needs to be corrected.
see here: http://