Ubuntu – How to add Domain Admins to sudoers

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There is a similar question that has been answered; so, I'm not sure if I should tag on; not believing that I should, I'm proceeding.

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and have joined our Windows domain using PBIS (formerly likewise-open). I can get an individual user account sudo privileges, but cannot get Domain Admins the same. I've tried every variation of %DOMAIN\domain^admins I've see so far with no success.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Best Answer

This also worked for me:

%domain^admins ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

I assume this is because of the following commands used when setting up PBIS:

sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config UserDomainPrefix $domain
sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config AssumeDefaultDomain true
sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config LoginShellTemplate /bin/bash
sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config HomeDirTemplate %H/%U

This seems to make the domain accounts appear as local accounts to the system by assuming the domain name is before the login account. Therefore the domain name is not required by the sudoers list.

Any thoughts?

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