[sudo-users] sudo and group ownership

[Todd C. Miller]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:47:29 -0000, Leroy Tennison wrote:

> In preparing to clean up the filesystem for a person who is no longer with th
> e company, I discovered that this person's group is the group owner for a num
> ber of /var/log/sudo-io/00/00/... files.  I confirmed this is because the ses
> sion "belongs" to them.  If I change the group ownership to root is it going 
> to impact sudo's reporting in any way?

You can change the group on those files to root without impacting
anything.  The files don't the group permissions by default and
newer versions of sudo create them with group ID 0 by default.

 - todd