[sudo-users] Query on Host Alias

Mark Janssen maniac.nl at gmail.com
Wed May 5 18:08:12 EDT 2010


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Ladner, Eric (Eric.Ladner)
<Eric.Ladner at chevron.com> wrote:
> It doesn't have central management, but you can create a single sudoers
> file that you can run on multiple computers.  It makes it easier from an
> auditing point of view and you only have one sudoers file to maintain
> instead of 20 different ones.
>
> You've got to sync them between computers yourself, but managing only
> one file simplifies things.

These days sudo does have a centralized form of configuration... LDAP.
But still. It's handy to have 1 config for multiple systems, even if
you have to manually distribute it.

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