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New Ubuntu and Debian Approach
This Rather then editing the /etc/sudoers using visudo, this approach ensures that system upgrades will not overwrite your changes,
From the the sudoers man pages,
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#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
sudo will read each file in /etc/sudoers.d, skipping file names that end in ~ or contain a . character to avoid causing
problems with package manager or editor temporary/backup files. Files are parsed in sorted lexical order. That is,
/etc/sudoers.d/01_first will be parsed before /etc/sudoers.d/10_second. Be aware that because the sorting is lexical, not
numeric, /etc/sudoers.d/1_whoops would be loaded after /etc/sudoers.d/10_second. Using a consistent number of leading
zeroes in the file names can be used to avoid such problems.
Note that unlike files included via #include, visudo will not edit the files in a #includedir directory unless one of them
contains a syntax error. It is still possible to run visudo with the -f flag to edit the files directly. |
So rather then editing the /etc/sudoers, we create a file, . Create a file, 01_bonsai_disable_password_auth using the sudoers visudo command to ensure proper permissions and locking,
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# Creates file, locks its and validates for syntax errors. sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/01_bonsai_disable_password_auth |
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Older Standard
Use account names associated with a user. For this example, I will be designating adminstrative users under the staff group. To see the list of groups available to you use the command, cat /etc/group.
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The staff group by default does not normally have sudo access. To grant sudo access to the staff group,
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visudo
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visudo launches your default editor to a special file. Add the following to the bottom of the file,
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# Members of the staff group may gain root privileges %staff ALL=(ALL) ALL |
Create Catch-All serveradmin user
The purpose of serveradmin is the catch-all place to setup things like scripts. It may also, depending on requirements for your organization be used to manually setup software like application servers.
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