About macOS: why my user not in sudoers file but I can use sudo privileges too?
In Linux, if the user that you created want to use sudo privileges, you should add this user to /etc/sudoers(add something like jack ALL = (ALL) ALL). Well, the default mac user(the one you login to mac when you turn on you Mac) can use sudo too, but it's not in /etc/sudoers file, but root user is in it, do you guys know how mac perform this?
As far as I know, the user I mentioned above is not in /etc/passwd too, I found it in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/XXX.plist, xxx is your user name.
osx sudo passwd
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In Linux, if the user that you created want to use sudo privileges, you should add this user to /etc/sudoers(add something like jack ALL = (ALL) ALL). Well, the default mac user(the one you login to mac when you turn on you Mac) can use sudo too, but it's not in /etc/sudoers file, but root user is in it, do you guys know how mac perform this?
As far as I know, the user I mentioned above is not in /etc/passwd too, I found it in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/XXX.plist, xxx is your user name.
osx sudo passwd
edited Jan 26 at 7:51
Kusalananda
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In Linux, if the user that you created want to use sudo privileges, you should add this user to /etc/sudoers(add something like jack ALL = (ALL) ALL). Well, the default mac user(the one you login to mac when you turn on you Mac) can use sudo too, but it's not in /etc/sudoers file, but root user is in it, do you guys know how mac perform this?
As far as I know, the user I mentioned above is not in /etc/passwd too, I found it in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/XXX.plist, xxx is your user name.
osx sudo passwd
edited Jan 26 at 7:51
Kusalananda
128k16241398
asked Jan 26 at 7:31
Bruce XieBruce Xie
15115
In Linux, if the user that you created want to use sudo privileges, you should add this user to /etc/sudoers(add something like jack ALL = (ALL) ALL). Well, the default mac user(the one you login to mac when you turn on you Mac) can use sudo too, but it's not in /etc/sudoers file, but root user is in it, do you guys know how mac perform this?
As far as I know, the user I mentioned above is not in /etc/passwd too, I found it in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/XXX.plist, xxx is your user name.
osx sudo passwd
osx sudo passwd
edited Jan 26 at 7:51
Kusalananda
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asked Jan 26 at 7:31
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edited Jan 26 at 7:51
Kusalananda
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By default, your initial user (and other users listed as "Admins") will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL
which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
answered Jan 26 at 7:41
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Thank you so much, I found the group fileadmin.plistin/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups，and my initial user is exactly right here, haha: imgur.com/a/Io903mz
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By default, your initial user (and other users listed as "Admins") will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL
which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
answered Jan 26 at 7:41
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Thank you so much, I found the group fileadmin.plistin/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups，and my initial user is exactly right here, haha: imgur.com/a/Io903mz
– Bruce Xie
Jan 26 at 10:04
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By default, your initial user (and other users listed as "Admins") will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL
which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
answered Jan 26 at 7:41
KusalanandaKusalananda
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Thank you so much, I found the group fileadmin.plistin/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups，and my initial user is exactly right here, haha: imgur.com/a/Io903mz
– Bruce Xie
Jan 26 at 10:04
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By default, your initial user (and other users listed as "Admins") will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL
which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
answered Jan 26 at 7:41
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By default, your initial user (and other users listed as "Admins") will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL
which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
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Thank you so much, I found the group fileadmin.plistin/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups，and my initial user is exactly right here, haha: imgur.com/a/Io903mz
– Bruce Xie
Jan 26 at 10:04
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Thank you so much, I found the group fileadmin.plistin/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups，and my initial user is exactly right here, haha: imgur.com/a/Io903mz
– Bruce Xie
Jan 26 at 10:04
Thank you so much, I found the group file
admin.plist in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups，and my initial user is exactly right here, haha: imgur.com/a/Io903mz– Bruce Xie
Jan 26 at 10:04
Thank you so much, I found the group file
admin.plist in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups，and my initial user is exactly right here, haha: imgur.com/a/Io903mz– Bruce Xie
Jan 26 at 10:04
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