Re: /etc/sudoers versus /etc/sudoers.d

Michael Ströder <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.sudo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2018-09-12 01:34, John Adams wrote:
>      Someone pointed out to me today that we could decompose our
> /etc/sudoers files into one large standard body and many smaller
> configuration files in /etc/sudoers.d.

Did "someone" tell you why he wants to do that?

>      We've got a little over a hundred machines and not a lot of 
> variation
> among them. I see the value of doing this and also wonder whether the 
> value
> is worth the gain in complexity.
> 
>      What do you think? And is there any other recent new feature I 
> should
> think about using?

One advantage of /etc/sudoers.d/ is that different OS packages (RPM, 
Debian, etc.) or configuration management modules can independently add 
sudoers rules.

Ciao, Michael.
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