adm group
Administrative groups on Linux: wheel and sudo grant full sudo rights on Rocky and Ubuntu, while adm lets members read system logs.
In more detail
Membership is set with usermod -aG. Granting wheel or sudo is full root, so least privilege uses narrow sudoers rules instead.
Related terms
- sudo — A command that runs another command with administrator (root) rights after checking you are allowed to.
Taught in
- Starters, Leavers And A Service Account: Accounts On Two Families — CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-006) Exam Prep
- The Pager Command That Opened A Root Shell: sudo, su And Least Privilege — CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-006) Exam Prep