It’s been a while since I have posted to the blog…been busy! Today I’d like to talk about the good old sudoers file.

The sudoer file has always been the way to manage the users with sudo privileges on your server. There is another way to manage the users. If you look at the base of your sudoers file, will see the lines: #includedir /etc/sudoers.d

A look at the /etc folder and we see a folder, /sudoers.d.

Place a file in here with sudoers configuration and it will include it along with the sudoers file.

I like to put in files for different access groups…like a file called developers that I use to give sudo rights to the development team.

Another thing you could do would be to add a file for each developer so that removing a users and all privileges from the server is as easy as just deleting files.