Transition the default sudo group from sudo to wheel (T10378)

Joey Riches (#joebonrichie), 2022-09-07 11:50:01 UTC

In solus historically we've used the sudo group instead of wheel as the default admin group, for the historical reasons why, I don't know. Regardless, most software assumes that the wheel group is the default sudo group and we have to patch several packages to change it to use sudo. I am sure some functionality gets broken as we don't necessarily notice all of the packages that assume wheel. > wheel n. [from slang `big wheel' for a powerful person] A person who has an active wheel bit. "We need to find a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives." (See wedged, sense 1.) The traditional name of security group zero in BSD (to which the major system-internal users like root belong) is `wheel'. Some vendors have expanded on this usage, modifying Unix so that only members of group `wheel' can go root. To resolve: - [x] Transition to new go-based `qol-assist` (R3820:b96412101e5477093c5dcd6d93fa599550ddbd11) - [ ] Implement support in `qol-assist` to remove users from a group. https://github.com/getsolus/qol-assist/issues/3 (https://github.com/getsolus/qol-assist/pull/4) - [ ] Add a migration in `qol-assist` that adds active admin users to the wheel group - [ ] Change the default sudo group to wheel in the `sudo` package - [ ] Change the default admin group from sudo to wheel in the `accountsservice` package - [ ] Remove our polkit patches that changes the sudo group from wheel to sudo - [ ] Remove systemd patches that changes the sudo group from wheel to sudo - [ ] Any other packages (hplip) - [ ] Add a migration in `qol-assist` that removes active admin users from the sudo group when we are confident it can be removed.

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Transition the default sudo group from sudo to wheel (T10378) #299