From: Ramon Fischer <Ramon_Fischer@hotmail.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:41:20 +0200 [thread overview]
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Interesting! Thank you for your research!
After working 20 hours straight - uptime said so - I did not feel like
it to do deeper research myself. :)
-Ramon
On 26/10/2022 13:31, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 3:42 AM Ramon Fischer <Ramon_Fischer@hotmail.de> wrote:
>> I do not know, what the developers were thinking to encourage the user
>> to edit a default file, which gets potentially overwritten after each
>> package update...
>>
>> "etc-update" helps to have an eye on, but muscle memory and fast fingers
>> are sometimes faster.
> The Gentoo preference tends to be to follow upstream. So if sudo
> upstream distributes a file like this that has comments encouraging
> users to edit it, then that is likely how Gentoo will ship it. If
> sudo switched to moving everything into an include-based system
> UPSTREAM then Gentoo would probably start shipping that. If you look
> at the sudo ebuild you'll see that the config files are 100% upstream.
>
> If you look at things like systemd units or udev rules they're much
> more include-oriented, as this is the upstream preference.
>
> Gentoo has emphasized using config file protection early on, and
> doesn't have any official preference for using included config
> directories distro-wide. Portage has been moving in this direction
> for a while though (for the stuff in /etc/portage).
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-26 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-26 2:34 [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!! Walter Dnes
2022-10-26 3:04 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 3:15 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 3:34 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 3:40 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 3:44 ` Matt Connell
2022-10-26 16:21 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 17:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2022-10-26 17:31 ` Rich Freeman
2022-10-26 20:17 ` Dale
2022-10-26 21:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2022-10-26 22:44 ` Dale
2022-10-27 1:23 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-27 3:01 ` Dale
2022-10-27 7:55 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-27 7:59 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 23:55 ` Rich Freeman
2022-10-26 6:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2022-10-26 7:42 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 11:31 ` Rich Freeman
2022-10-26 14:41 ` Ramon Fischer [this message]
2022-10-26 16:52 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 17:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2022-10-26 17:54 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 18:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 18:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2022-10-26 19:28 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 20:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2022-10-26 20:17 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 21:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2022-10-26 21:29 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 21:48 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 23:06 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-27 1:27 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-27 1:47 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-27 7:53 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 18:35 ` Jack
2022-10-26 18:38 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 20:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2022-10-26 21:27 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 21:30 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 19:31 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 19:26 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 18:04 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-10-26 16:38 ` Grant Taylor
2022-10-26 3:12 ` Matt Connell
2022-10-26 4:00 ` Anna “CyberTailor”
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